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Page 94 This time the match lights up part of the basement, but not enough for you to see where there might be any doors or passageways. What you do see sends a shudder through you bones. Scurrying around the floor are large brown rats—dozen of them! A couple of them are inching closer, as if you’ve attracted their attention. “We’d better try that door again.” Jenny’s voice is shaking as her last match flickers out. The two of you start up the stairs, but you stop short after only few steps. There’s a white glow at the top of the stairs. It expands, lengthening to form a human shape. You are staring once again at Harlowe Thrombey’s ghost. “Oh, no.” Jenny voice sounds thin and pinched. The ghost replies with eerie, echoing peals of laughter. You stand frozen, more hypnotized than frightened. The ghost neither moves nor talks, but stands motionless, starting at you as if deciding your fate. “What….what can we do?” Jenny squeezes your arm so tightly you almost cry out. If you continue up the steps toward the ghost, turn to page 37 If you go back down the steps and grope your way through the basement, looking for steps leading outside the house, turn to page 71