Haunted by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Fire?

I sat down for lunch at what had already become my usual table after one dinner and one breakfast at Undercliff. I scanned the room for Lara. Didn’t see her at the food line or anywhere else. I did see Cyndi, though. She was already eating with some girls at a table near one of the windows.

“Shouldn’t Lara be back from the library?” I asked the group. The regulars at my usual table were there too—Joe, Harlan, and Robert.

“I was just thinking that,” said Robert. He craned his neck and did a search of the dinning hall. “Chuck is letting Cyndi eat with everyone. Lara should be in here too.”

“Unless she showed some attitude. That could have earned her some extra time,” Danny commented.

“No one shows attitude if they’re looking at library time,” Harlan said.

“But you’re the one who said that Lara doesn’t know the deal about the library yet,” Robert reminded him.

“Yeah, but I was thinking about it,” Harlan said. “Lara would feel Moses’s spirit right away. She’s, you know, sensitive like that.”

“Rat poop,” muttered Danny.

“When are you going to just admit you were wrong?” Harlan asks. “Ghosts do exist. You got proof last night.”

“That wasn’t proof of anything,” Danny told him.

“What is wrong with you? She was there. Right in front of us,” Harlan insisted.

Danny shook his head. “Magicians a hundred and fifty years ago were making their audiences see ghosts. Are you telling me if I challenged you to make a spirit appear as one of your pranks, you couldn’t do it?”

Danny and Harlan were starting to sound kind of like me and Joe.

“Yeah, I could do it. But I wasn’t doing it last night. And there weren’t any eighteenth-century magicians around either,” Harlan answered.

“What about that girl Cyndi?” I asked. “Does she have the chops to pull off an illusion like that?”

Harlan snorted.

“No possible way,” said Danny. “The girl is D-U-M dumb.”

“And why would Cyndi want to create an image of a girl who hated her?” Robert asked.

“What was the deal with Cyndi and Iris?” Joe cut in, before anyone could answer Robert’s question. “Did you guys know Iris? Did the ghost—or whatever—even look like her? Or was Cyndi just flipping?”

“Looked exactly like her,” said Robert.

Harlan nodded.

“Like I said last night, I never talked to the girl or anything. But yeah, the illusion looked like her,” Danny agreed.

“I can think of only one reason Iris might be mad at Cyndi,” Robert volunteered. “Dr. Beirly was having Cyndi do some letters for him on the computer.”

“Cause she was Beirly’s little pet. I know that much,” added Danny.

“And I guess Cyndi caught Iris snooping around in his office one day,” Robert continued.

“And of course she told Beirly, because that’s what pets do.” Harlan picked up the story. “There were rumors going around that Beirly was going to ship Iris off to Allendale.”

“Allendale?” Robert burst out. “I never heard that. I didn’t even know they took girls. I’ve seen guys cry when they got sentenced there.”

“Some people think that’s why she offed herself,” said Harlan.

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