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**  Leaving Jenny to watch the fireplace, you climb the broad central staircase. In the second floor hall you find a door leading to an upstairs porch. You are able to pivot around the corner post of the porch railing out onto the roof. Thought you have a good tread on your sneakers and the roof is not steeply pitched, the slate shingles are wet and slippery, and you have to work your way up with great care. You’re beginning to feel more afraid of falling than of coming face to face with the ghost! About halfway up the chimney, you pass the attic window. Looking into it you see a face-a pale gray face with a twisted shadow of a mouth and great hollow eyes! Instinctively you rear back-only a few inches, but enough to lose your balance! Desperately you drop to your hands and knees to try to get traction on the roof, but it’s too late. You’re falling, tumbling, head over heels over the edge. Your neck twists as you r head hits the hard ground. Turn to page 30.
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