You COULD N'T look every way at once , and goodness only knew what might be behind you ! `` There CA N'T be anybody in the house , '' said Felicity . `` Well , here 's the key -- go and see for yourself , '' said Peter . Felicity had no intention of going and seeing . `` I think you boys ought to go , '' she said , retreating behind the defence of sex . `` You ought to be braver than girls . '' `` But we ai n't , '' said Felix candidly . `` I would n't be much scared of anything REAL . But a haunted house is a different thing . '' `` I always thought something had to be done in a place before it could be haunted , '' said Cecily . `` Somebody killed or something like that , you know . Nothing like that ever happened in our family . The Kings have always been respectable . '' `` Perhaps it is Emily King 's ghost , '' whispered Felix . `` She never appeared anywhere but in the orchard , '' said the Story Girl . `` Oh , oh , children , is n't there something under Uncle Alec 's tree ? '' We peered fearfully through the gloom . There WAS something -- something that wavered and fluttered -- advanced -- retreated -- `` That 's only my old apron , '' said Felicity . `` I hung it there to-day when I was looking for the white hen 's nest . Oh , what shall we do ?
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