"Your friends, who do not know where you are, must be very uneasy
about you. But what are you looking for?"
"A ring, a plain gold circle, with my name and that of another
inscribed on it, and which I would not lose for the world. I hung it
on a pin in this pin-cushion last night before I went to bed. I
would swear I did, and now it is missing," answered Cap, still
pursuing her search.
"If you lost it in this room it will certainly be found," said
Dorcas Knight putting down the habit and helping in the search.
"I am not so sure of that. There was some one in my room last
night."
"Some one in your room!" exclaimed Dorcas in dismay.
"Yes; a dark-haired woman, all dressed in white!"
Dorcas Knight gave two or three angry grunts and then harshly
exclaimed: "Nonsense! woman, indeed! there is no such woman about
the house! There are no females here except Miss Day, myself and
you--not even a waiting-maid or cook."
"Well," said Cap, "if it was not a woman it was a ghost; for I was
wide awake, and I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Fudge! you've heard that foolish story of the haunted room, and you
have dreamed the whole thing!"
"I tell you I didn't! I saw it! Don't I know?"
"I say you dreamed it! There is no such living woman here; and as
for a ghost, that is all folly. And I must beg, Miss Black, that you
will not distress Miss Day by telling her this strange dream of
yours.
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