when Willard arrived. From their car they 
could see the house plainly, but were not in 
sight of any one passing along the road. After 
a time they heard the engine of an automobile. 
Soon a car passed and drew up in front of the 
Lipsey house. In the moonlight they could 
dimly see someone going up through the yard. 
Then the motor turned and went up the road 
again. Presently through the unshuttered win- 
dows a faint light appeared, and they knew by 
this that the boy in the house had lighted a 
eandle. For half an hour they watched, and 
then all at once a bright flash of light shone 
from the window of the loft and a dull boom 
sounded through the night air. They knew, 
of course, what this meant. Willard had set 
off his flash-ight for a photograph. After 
waiting a while longer and neither seeing nor 
hearing anything further, they brought the car 
out to the road and ran home. It is said that 
as they went along they vowed never to tell 
any one they had been to the haunted house. 
At the next meeting of the camera club all the » 
members were present, for word had gone out 
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