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86 21cur115 uf13uu11nkei 1917 the other noise-the rap, rap, rap. When we reached the second story the rap, rap, rap was more audible, but seemed to still come from overhead. Ex- ploring, we found there was a ladder leading up to the attic. Not being able to go up this six abreast we almost had to give up our plan, but we finally decided to draw straws to determine the order in which we should mount the ladder. The unlucky boy who drew the shortest straw and had to go up first, almost rebellecl, but we finally prevailed upon him to lead the way. Every step up the ladder seemed to make the rap, rap, rap more audible. However, we slowly mounted and at last all of us were in the attic. Rapg rap, rap sounded quite plainly. The attic was one large room with a slanting roof, or rather ceiling, and a large chimney at one end. We decided that the rap, rap, rap came from behind the chimney. So we went cautiously toward this end of the room. All the while this steady rap, rap, rap worked on our nerves and seemed to push us, with an invisible hand, away from the chimney. We came to it, however, and heard rap, rap, rap coming from behind it. We decided then that the noise came from a black hole back ofthe chimney. By this time we were ready to find out the cause of this strange and weird rap, rap, rap or die in the attempt, and I am not sure but that most of us feared it would be the latter. Not a soul had any matches and the hole was dark as night, not silent, however, for from it sounded hollowly rap, rap, rap. We tried to make the boy who had led the way up the ladder put his hand in the hole, and try to find out what caused this rap, rap, rap, which every minute seemed to grow stronger and more gruesome. l-le flatly refused and said we would have to draw again. Of course, everybody thought that one of the others would be the unlucky one, so we agreed to this. Thus a second time, spurred on by the rap, rap, rap, we drew straws. Then again we almost left without finding out the cause of this mysterious rap, rap, rap. I know, for llwas the one this time who drew the shortest straw. However, after a great deal of persuasion, and incidentally rap, rap, rapping, I finally consented to put my hand in the awful black hole and try to catch the cause of the fearful rap, rap, rap. Feeling much like I judge one feels who is going to be executed, I cautiously extended my hand until my whole arm was in the hole. The rap, rap, rap sounded in my ears like a funeral dirge, only louder and more awful than any l had ever heard. For a while my groping fingers encountered nothing but empty air. Then suddenly I felt something. The rap, rap, rap continued. I snatched out my hand and jerked out something with it. In my hand was-Ha piece of wrapping paperll' PHILIP T. POWELL, 'l7.
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1917 9113011115 uf Roanoke 85 Rap! Rap! Rap! O I believe in ghosts? Well, perhaps not, but one time, at least, I had a curious experience that seemed to point to the existence of something supernatural, or at least unexplainable. If you wish, l will tell you about it. You may not believe it at first, but I assure you that everything happened just as l will tell it. You will have to judge about the ghost part yourself. A few summers ago, I spent a month camping with five of my friends. There was only one drawback to our camp site. It was about half a mile from the swimming hole, but it was near the spring, which was more important. One afternoon while we were all in swimming one' of these summer wind and rain storms came up before we knew it. Of course, we didn't mind get- ting Wet but we remembered that all our bed-clothes had been left out to sun. So it behooved us to hurry back to camp before the storm broke or we would of necessity sleep under wet blankets that night. We dressed almost quicker than it takes to tell it, yet before we had even started for camp the wind had begun to blow and the rain to fall. Both became harder, so we realized we were too late to save our blankets, Still we hurried on, and the rain changed to one of the worst hail storms that I have ever seen. The lightning, too, began to flash about us. Then, not being able to stand it any longer, we rushed into a house that was near the road. It proved to be an old Colonial mansion, long vacant, about which we had heard strange rumors. However we were not afraid of ghosts, so, pushing open the door, we entered. A strong gust of wind immediately slammed shut the door, leaving us in inky darkness. Outside the storm continued with unabated fury. Inside we began to hear strange noises. Somebody yelledg then he discovered that rats running across his feet had caused his fright. This seemed to make us rather ashamed of ourselves, for we had all been somewhat disturbed by the noises. When, a little later, we heard other noises, that could not possibly have been made by rats, we decided to investigate. From overhead seemed to come a steady rap, rap, rap. The storm was still raging outside. We could stand it no longer. Something had to be doneg so we decided to find out the source of this strange noise. A As I said, this was an old house and a wide stairway led to the second story from the room we were in. Up this stairway we crept, six abreast, as no one wanted to lead. Even the creaking of the old stairs couldn't drown out
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