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You manage to get your head inside the cavity, and you kneel there, panting as you replenish your lungs with fresh air. You never would have guessed that ordinary air could smell and taste so good! Slowly you feel you head clearing, your energy returning. With renewed fervor you bash away at the sheetrock, opening the hole wider until at last you can crawl through. You descend the attic stairs cautiously. You hear no signs of life, and indeed you soon find that the house is deserted. Even the dogs are gone. You wonder what happened to the ghost who demanded that you find the diamonds. Suddenly it dawns on you: the ghost that was threatening you must have been a trick of Grimstone’s. After he got the diamonds he must have cleared out! Two men are approaching. They identify themselves as police detectives and take you to headquarters. There you tell Chief Ludhorn of your experience with Howard Grimstone. “We’ve been watching the house since he and his men left town yesterday,” Ludhorn says. “Grimstone was just put on the FBI’s most-wanted list. When he’s caught-and he will be caught- your testimony will be most helpful in bringing him to justice.” The End
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