IX - Conflicting Theories––––––––
IN the kitchen the discussion was going on in less guarded terms.
“It’s murder,” Thorpe declared flatly. “No spooks ever killed off those two people in a minute, just like that!”
“Murder, your grandmother!” snorted Stebbins. “Who done it, and how? I ask you that! Those folks came up here to hunt ghosts, and I should say they found ’em, good and plenty! You know’s well’s I do, this house has always been ha’nted, ever since that woman killed her husband in that very room where the little girl’s lyin’ now. I wouldn’t go in that there room for a fortune, I wouldn’t!”
“Now Eli, don’t be foolish,” and Thorpe shook his head. “How could a spook kill two folks at once,—right out in the open, as you may say?”
“For that matter, how could anybody murder two peopl
