gh+page+108

Page 108 You make a break for it, throw open the window, and swing yourself through feet first. Someone lunges after you as you jump onto the slanting roof. When you hit, your momentum carries you along—you can’t stop! At the edge of the roof you have to jump. Screaming, you leap toward a cedar tree growing close to the house. It helps break your fall, but you are thrown sideways. Your head bangs against a rock as you hit ground, and you’re out cold. You wake up in a hospital bed—you’re aching head bandaged and your right leg in a cast. Your scream saved you life. A patrolman was at your side even before Grimstone got out of the house to look for you. The police had been suspicious of Grimstone and were keeping an eye on his house. The doctor says you’ll be in the hospital for a week and on crutches for two months after that. You won’t be hunting ghosts for a while. THE END