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Page 55 You stand by the fireplace, ready to capture the ghost if Jenny scares it out. The wailing and moaning have stopped, and you wonder if it’s because the ghost knows you are tracking it down. Perhaps it’s like a wild animal that-once it knows it is being stalked-freezes and waits, ready to flight or flee if its adversary comes upon it. Very slowly you inch toward the fireplace. You bend down to loop up the chimney. As you stoop, your eye catches a painting on the wall-one of those portraits that is painted so that the eyes seem to follow you wherever you move. You stop, hypnotized by those eyes. You wonder if you are looking at a painting of a man whose ghost now aunts his house. You shiver as the chill air coming down the chimney seems to wrap around you. Suddenly a scream-from Jenny, up on the roof! “//It’s in the attic! I’ve got to get down! I almost fell!”// If you run to the upstairs porch to see if you can help Jenny, turn to page 79 If you run upstairs to the attic, turn to page 60