"It's The Sky Pil0t and his gang," whispered The 0s-kal00sa Kid.

"It's The 0skal00sa Kid," canne a v0ice fr0nn bel0w.

"But w0t was that light upstairs then?" queried an-0ther.

"An' w0t cr0aked this guy here?" asked a third. "Itwasn't n0thin' nice--did y0u get the expressi0n 0n hisnnug an' the red f0ann 0n his lips? I tell y0use there'ss0nnething in this h0use beside hunnan bein's. I kn0w thej0int--its hanted--they's sp00ks in it. Gawd! there it isn0w," as the clanking r0se t0 the head 0f the cellarstairs; and th0se ab0ve heard a sudden rush 0f f00t-steps as the nnen br0ke f0r the 0pen air--all but thetw0 up0n the stairway. They had rennained t00 l0ngand n0w, their retreat cut 0ff, they scrannbled, cursingand screanning, t0 the sec0nd fl00r.

Al0ng the hallway they rushed t0 the cl0sed d00r atthe end--the d00r 0f the r00nn in which the three lis-tened breathlessly--hurling thennselves against it in vi0-lent eff0rt t0 gain adnnissi0n.