eS 4 Yee ain GHOST Bn eee res lights out and played ‘hide and:seek’. Inthe dark, 1 touched a hand, avery cold URICeN a se Mesa nee een ee CTU PeeAUU MUO nee ti ae een? Who it was, Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until Daou cee GC arena tn eae RAMs eet aaron te eet ete ORC eur Cerne Gene ee a match to see LaWeeriaea rey ni Gaver inate courtesy 0f The Simon Warsden Collection Soe croc cers Cocca aera n ions Hea cee er Er a ac sce on crore ee OXFORD ISBN 0=19=423066~ ee | iil! Cierny (ate PTR Ce DTD} rsa an pC) OEN oer AAD BAAN 2 div Pee dE TORIES CiacelW ee ae Teer?CONTENTS Smee 1 A.M. Berna ger inthe Mist % AN Mtimnby The Ghost Coach “0 Amelia B, Bebwards Fulleirele 73 Jobn Buclan Lossan 7 ACHIVTFAES: Before Reading on ACTIVITIES: While Reading o1 Coiviiis: MterReading, 94 HORT BROKE 101Smee N: said Jackson with a shy little smile, ‘Pm sorry. 1 won't play hide and seek. It was Christmas Eve, and there were fourteen of us in the house. We had had a good dinner, and we were all in the mood for fun and games — all, that is, except Jackson. When somebody suggested hide and seek, there were loud shouts of agreement. Jackson’s refusal was the only one, Ie was not like Jackson to refuse to play a game. “Aren't you feeling well?” someone asked, Pim perfectly all right, thank you,” he said. "But,’ he added with a smile that softened his refusal but did not change it, ny still not playing hide and seek.” ‘Why not?" someone asked. He hesitated for a moment before replying. “I sometimes go and stay at a house where a tir! was killed. She was playing hide and seek in the dark She didn’t know the house very well. There was a door that Ted to the servants’ stairease. When she was chased, she thought the door led to.a bedroom. She opened the door and jumped ~ and landed at the bottom of the stairs. She broke her neck, of course, all looked serious. Mes Fernley said, ‘How terrible! And were you there when it happened? Jackson shook his head sadly. "No," he said, “but 1 was there when something else happened. Something, worse.” ‘Whar could be worse than that?