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we young had ae the 
ghosts of the Lipsey house. At this meeting 
he would be prepared to show his picture and 
read an account of what had happened during 
his lonely watch. This is the paper that Willard 
read, and because of it and the photograph he 
showed, he was then and there, without one 
opposing vote, elected a member of the camera 
club. 
lil 
“T had never believed in ghosts,” is the way 
he began; “but I admit I was very nervous 
when Walter left me at the Lipsey house. He 
gave me only two candles, and I think my great- 
lread was that even though burning them 
one at a time they would not last until morning. 
I found an old rocking-chair and sat down in it. 
For a while I held a lighted candle in my hand, 
but later set it on the floor. Everything was 
deathly still and I was afraid to rock, for the old 
chair creaked every time I shifted my legs the 
least bit, and I couldn’t bear the sound. Before 
long I began to hear noises in the half-story loft 
overhead. I cannot tell you very well what 
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