Nobody really wants to spend the Christmas holidays at school, but Janice and Clarissa, two of the senior girls at Merryfield, were determined to make the best of it. And for the sake of the three Juniors they even welcomed the heavy fall of snow which cut Merry-field off from the village.
It was cheeky young Sally Kerr, the Third Form tomboy, who got her story in first about the ghost-the "thing' she called it, which rose from the ground and disappeared in a swirl of mist-or so she said.
Sally's thirst for adventure and for ghosting in particular led her into all sorts of scrapes over Christmas and it was all pretty 'scarifying'
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especially the secret room, and the queer way some people behaved. But Sally, being Sally, didn't give up her de-tectingnot even the odd ghost or two could make her do that.