I couldn't stand such a thing as that, Tom-nobody could." "Yes, but, Huck, ghosts don't travel around only at night. They won't hender us from digging there in the daytime." "Well, that's so. But you know mighty well people don't go about that ha'nted house in the day nor the night." "Well, that's mostly because they don't like to go where a man's been murdered, anyway-but nothing's ever been seen around that house except in the night-just some blue lights slipping by the windows-no regular ghosts.

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