`` They must have seen something to frighten them so , '' she said . `` I will go and see , '' said Susan coolly . `` Now , children , calm yourselves . Whatever you have seen , it was not a ghost . As for poor Henry Warren , I feel sure he would be only too glad to rest quietly in his peaceful grave once he got there . No fear of HIM venturing back , and that you may tie to . If you can make them see reason , Miss West , I will find out the truth of the matter . '' Susan departed for Rainbow Valley , valiantly grasping a pitchfork which she found leaning against the back fence where the doctor had been working in his little hay-field . A pitchfork might not be of much use against `` ha ` nts , '' but it was a comforting sort of weapon . There was nothing to be seen in Rainbow Valley when Susan reached it . No white visitants appeared to be lurking in the shadowy , tangled old Bailey garden . Susan marched boldly through it and beyond it , and rapped with her pitchfork on the door of the little cottage on the other side , where Mrs. Stimson lived with her two daughters . Back at Ingleside Rosemary had succeeded in calming the children . They still sobbed a little from shock , but they were beginning to feel a lurking and salutary suspicion that they had made dreadful geese of themselves . This suspicion became a certainty when Susan finally returned . `` I have found out what your ghost was , '' she said , with a grim smile , sitting down on a rocker and fanning herself . `` Old Mrs. Stimson has had a pair of factory cotton sheets bleaching in the Bailey garden for a week . She spread them on the dyke under the tamarack tree because the grass was clean and short there . This evening she went out to take them in . She had her knitting in her hands so she hung the sheets over her shoulders by way of carrying them .
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