Wiseli's eyes shone with satisfaction as they seldom did nowadays.
Presently Otto wanted to know how she had managed to get into the room
again, for he had always waited until all the children were gone.
"Oh! I never did go out," said the girl. "I hid myself quickly
behind the closet-door. I thought you would go out for a few
moments, as usual."
"How did you get out without my seeing you afterwards?" Otto wanted to
know all about it.
"Oh! while you were running around with the other boys, I got out easily
enough. I listened; but yesterday and to-day, as I was not certain where
you were, I went through the teacher's kitchen, and asked his wife if
she had any errand for me to do,--she often gives me a message to carry
somewhere,--and then I went out that way. Yesterday I was behind the
kitchen-door when you ran into the schoolroom."
Now Otto knew all the ghost story. He offered his hand again to Wiseli.
"I thank you," he said; and they both ran off with happy hearts, each a
separate way.
CHAPTER VI.
OLD AND NEW.
Summer was over, and Autumn had followed in her footsteps. The evenings
were cool and misty. In the damp meadows the cows were eating the last
grass of the season, and here and there little fires were visible where
the sheep-boys cooked their potatoes and warmed their stiffened fingers.
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