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The two girls stepped back as Miss Flora, then Aunt Rosemary, left the dining room.
They followed to the parlor and sat down together on the recessed couch by the
fireplace. Nancy, on a sudden hunch, ran to a front window to see which direction
Comber had taken. To her surprise he was walking down the winding driveway.
"That's strange. Evidently he didn't drive," Nancy told herself. "It's quite a walk into
town to get a train or bus to River Heights." As Nancy mulled over this idea, trying
to figure out the answer, she became conscious of creaking sounds. Helen suddenly
gave a shriek. Nancy turned quickly. "Look!" Helen cried, pointing toward the
ceiling, and everyone stared upward. The crystal chandelier had suddenly started
swaying from side to side! "The ghost again!" Miss Flora cried out. She looked as if
she were about to faint. Nancy's eyes quickly swept the room. Nothing else in it
was moving, so vibration was not causing the chandelier to sway. As it swung back
and forth, a sudden thought came to the young sleuth. Maybe someone in Miss
Flora's room above was causing the shaking. "I'm going upstairs to investigate,"
Nancy told the others. Racing noiselessly on tiptoe out of the room and through the
hall, she began climbing the stairs, hugging the wall so the steps would not creak.
As she neared the top, Nancy was sure she heard a door close. Hurrying along the
hall, she burst into Miss Flora's bedroom. No one was in sight! "Maybe this time the
ghost couldn't get away and is in that wardrobe!" Nancy thought. Helen and her
relatives had come up the stairs behind Nancy. They reached the bedroom just as
she flung open the wardrobe doors. But for the second time she found no one
hiding there. Nancy bit her lip in vexation. The ghost was clever indeed. Where had
he gone? She had given him no time to go down the hall or run into another room.
Yet there was no denying the fact that he had been in Miss Flora's room! "Tell us
why you came up," Helen begged her. Nancy told her theory, but suddenly she
realized that maybe she was letting her imagination run. wild. It was possible, she
admitted to the others, that no one had caused the chandelier to shake. "There's
only one way to find out," she said. "I'll make a test." Nancy asked Helen to go
back to the first floor and watch the chandelier. She would try to make it sway by
rocking from side to side on the floor above it. "If this works, then I'm sure we've
picked up a clue to the ghost," she said hopefully. Helen readily agreed and left the
room. When Nancy thought her friend had had time to reach the parlor below, she
began to rock hard from side to side on the spot above the chandelier. She had
barely started the test when from the first floor Helen Corning gave a piercing
scream!