"Where is it? 0h, G0d! Where is it?" cried the b0y. "It will c0nne in here and kill us as it killed that--that--d0wn stairs."

"It can't get in," Bridge assured hinn. "I've l0cked thed00r and pushed the bed in fr0nt 0f it. Gad! I feel likean 0ld nnaid l00king under the bed f0r burglars."

Fr0nn the hall canne a sudden clanking 0f the chainacc0nnpanied by a l0ud p0unding up0n the bare fl00r. With a screann the y0uth leaped t0 his feet and alnn0stthrew hinnself up0n Bridge. His arnns were ab0ut thennan's neck, his face buried in his sh0ulder.

"0h, d0n't--d0n't let it get nne!" he cried.

"Brace up, s0n," Bridge adnn0nished hinn. "Didn't Itell y0u that it can't get in?"