It MIGHT N'T have been his ghost , but I was n't going to take any chances with a ha ` nt . '' `` It was likely old Mrs. Stimson 's white calf , '' laughed Di . `` It pastures in that garden -- I 've seen it . '' `` Maybe so . But I 'M not going home through the Bailey garden any more . Here 's Jerry with a big string of trout and it 's my turn to cook them . Jem and Jerry both say I 'm the best cook in the Glen . And Cornelia told me I could bring up this batch of cookies . I all but dropped them when I saw Henry 's ghost . '' Jerry hooted when he heard the ghost story -- which Mary repeated as she fried the fish , touching it up a trifle or so , since Walter had gone to help Faith to set the table . It made no impression on Jerry , but Faith and Una and Carl had been secretly much frightened , though they would never have given in to it . It was all right as long as the others were with them in the valley : but when the feast was over and the shadows fell they quaked with remembrance . Jerry went up to Ingleside with the Blythes to see Jem about something , and Mary Vance went around that way home . So Faith and Una and Carl had to go back to the manse alone . They walked very close together and gave the old Bailey garden a wide berth . They did not believe that it was haunted , of course , but they would not go near it for all that . CHAPTER XXX . THE GHOST ON THE DYKE Somehow , Faith and Carl and Una could not shake off the hold which the story of Henry Warren 's ghost had taken upon their imaginations . They had never believed in ghosts . Ghost tales they had heard a-plenty -- Mary Vance had told some far more blood-curdling than this ; but those tales were all of places and people and spooks far away and unknown .
After the first half-awful , half-pleasant thrill of awe and terror they thought XXXXX them no more .
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