If you can make them see reason , Miss West , I will find out the truth of the matter . '' Susan departed for Rainbow Valley , valiantly grasping a pitchfork which she found leaning against the back fence where the doctor had been working in his little hay-field . A pitchfork might not be of much use against `` ha ` nts , '' but it was a comforting sort of weapon . There was nothing to be seen in Rainbow Valley when Susan reached it . No white visitants appeared to be lurking in the shadowy , tangled old Bailey garden . Susan marched boldly through it and beyond it , and rapped with her pitchfork on the door of the little cottage on the other side , where Mrs. Stimson lived with her two daughters . Back at Ingleside Rosemary had succeeded in calming the children . They still sobbed a little from shock , but they were beginning to feel a lurking and salutary suspicion that they had made dreadful geese of themselves . This suspicion became a certainty when Susan finally returned . `` I have found out what your ghost was , '' she said , with a grim smile , sitting down on a rocker and fanning herself . `` Old Mrs. Stimson has had a pair of factory cotton sheets bleaching in the Bailey garden for a week . She spread them on the dyke under the tamarack tree because the grass was clean and short there . This evening she went out to take them in . She had her knitting in her hands so she hung the sheets over her shoulders by way of carrying them . And then she must have dropped one of her needles and find it she could not and has not yet . But she went down on her knees and crept about to hunt for it , and she was at that when she heard awful yells down in the valley and saw the three children tearing up the hill past her . She thought they had been bit by something and it gave her poor old heart such a turn that she could not move or speak , but just crouched there till they disappeared . Then she staggered back home and they have been applying stimulants to her ever since , and her heart is in a terrible condition and she says she will not get over this fright all summer . '' The Merediths sat , crimson with a shame that even Rosemary 's understanding sympathy could not remove . They sneaked off home , met Jerry at the manse gate and made remorseful confession .
A session of the Good-Conduct Club was arranged XXXXX next morning .
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