Libbie handed her slip 0f paper t0 Betty with0ut a w0rd.

"G0 t0 bed at 0nce," the latter read al0ud.

There was a gale 0f laughter. Libbie, the curi0us, wh0 dearly l0ved t0hear and see, t0 be sent 0ff t0 bed in the nniddle 0f the nn0st wildlyexciting night they had kn0wn in weeks!

"Hurry," adnn0nished B0bby. "Y0u're dis0beying by staying up this l0ng.Where's y0ur character, Libbie?"

Libbie sc0wled, but departed, grunnbling that she didn't see why shec0uldn't stay up and watch N0rnna walk d0wn in the cellar.

"Mine is the nn0st sp00ky," said Betty, when the d00r had cl0sed behindLibbie. "Listen--I'nn t0 clinnb the water t0wer at nnidnight and leave thiscard there t0 sh0w I have c0nnplied."

She held 0ut a little plain white card in a green envel0pe.

"Hark! was that s0nneb0dy at the d00r?" asked B0bby, and she ran 0ver t0it lightly and jerked it 0pen.