Ghost Attack by David Lubar

Ghost Attack by David Lubar

Author:David Lubar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.


The horses blocked us from our bikes. The men, who wore handkerchiefs tied around their mouths to hide their faces, dismounted and charged into the bank.

“This way!” I grabbed Sarah’s hand and ran in the other direction, away from the bank, toward an alley. We could hide there until the police came.

“Wait,” Sarah said. She tugged at my hand, pulling me to a stop.

“Are you out of your mind?” I asked, tugging back. “There’s a robbery.”

“They don’t seem to be concerned,” she said, tugging hard enough to make me decide to stop tugging. She pointed across the street, where two policemen were standing by their patrol car, watching the robbers.

Now, I was totally confused.

“I think this is part of the celebration for Thistle Days,” Sarah said.

I really hoped she was right, because that meant we weren’t in danger. But I also really hoped she was wrong, because that would mean I hadn’t been completely panicking about nothing.

Another half dozen men, dressed as an old-time western sheriff and his deputies, ran toward the bank. I noticed there were a lot of people right down the street from us, watching everything.

“I think you’re right,” I said to Sarah. “This is a historical reenactment.” My parents had taken me to see a group of people reenact a Civil War battle last summer. This was a smaller group of reenactors, but I was a lot closer to the action.

A few minutes later, the lawmen came back out of the bank. They were leading the bad guys, who all had their hands tied.

The spectators whooped and cheered as the bad guys were marched down the street, but the crowd didn’t follow the lawmen. They stayed where they were and watched the bank, as if they knew something else was about to happen.

And then someone different came out of the bank. It was a man, tall and thin, wearing a visor and old-fashioned clothes, including a vest. He had a sack in his hands like the kind banks used for cash in movies and cartoons. He crouched, looked both ways, then slinked down the street.



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