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 of them no more . But this story came home to them . The old Bailey garden was almost at their very door -- almost in their beloved Rainbow Valley . They had passed and repassed it constantly ; they had hunted for flowers in it ; they had made short cuts through it when they wished to go straight from the village to the valley . But never again ! After the night when Mary Vance told them its gruesome tale they would not have gone through or near it on pain of death . Death ! What was death compared to the unearthly possibility of falling into the clutches of Henry Warren 's grovelling ghost ? One warm July evening the three of them were sitting under the Tree Lovers , feeling a little lonely .
Nobody else had come XXXXX the valley that evening .
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