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Well, sure. That's kind of you to say. Makes me feel not too bad, too.

That's funny on the surface and scary if you think deeper. It appeals to me both ways, actually! 🤪

I wonder if I can persuade Kip to smile and go, "Ruby Roo!"

I got maybe half of that. Is that an approval?

Well, he was sort of promising Kip some nookie earlier. That's always sort of more relaxed when other people are in the house when you lock the door. But hey both turned out to be tired, and it didn't quite come off.

Yep. But Horace is used to people not telling him everything!

You'd make a wonderful PR guy!

It's a perfectly acceptable idea. I just didn't use it!

I wanted Horace to be a nice guy. Making him nasty about the boy's arrangements could have added some spice to the story, but I couldn't see Charlie and Kip putting up with it. They wouldn't want him to stay around, you know?

You are loaded with great ideas, my friend. I just write them down so that I can steal...er, perhaps utilize them later on.

"Mrs. Viggerol was very specific," Horace told them, as they sat around the kitchen table drinking hot chocolate. "She said she was here several days and only thought she experienced a few odd moments, before she actually saw or heard anything unusual. But then it seemed to all come at one time. She only stayed another day after the first event. The second night, she left." "And she only saw stuff at night?" Kippy asked. "That's what she said," Horace agreed. "She thought she might have

Your personal magnetism has assured your induction into the Polar Punster Hall of Fame! Do you prefer a North or South polar exposure for your accommodations?

And so a perfect participant in this story, if only by association!

You're not babbling. But the house will only pick up ODFL games, I'm sorry to say. I'll tell you what that means at the end of the story. 😁

The idea has merit, but is still in flux.

Fortunately, I am well insulated from the current trend in puns here!

Tesla was undeniably brilliant, and a great deal of conjecture has been built around the things he 'may' have envisioned or even invented. His employment by Edison, sadly, later developed into a professional feud over the development of electrical power, which was not pretty. In the thirties, Tesla was rumored to have developed an electrical 'death ray', and upon his own death in 1943 at age 85, the US government descended upon the hotel room he lived in and confiscated all of Tesla's notes and papers. Tesla's nephew in Croatia protested that, and the government sent Tesla's property to the man in the fifties. But J. Edgar Hoover was involved, and there is no accounting available to determine if ALL of Tesla's notes were sent to a place that was at the time a member of the Balkan Pact and considered a communist state. It really took way too long for the contributions that Tesla has made to the world to be acknowledged. He deserves to be remembered for his genius, and not for his much smaller failings as an entrepreneur.

Me, too!

Your Gauss is as good as mine!

They were sitting on the veranda with Moped when the woodie came up the drive. Ricky had opened the front door immediately upon arriving, and the dog had been waiting, her tail going, obviously delighted to have company again. She looked in no way frightened or upset, and that put Ricky at ease. They looked inside the house, and listened carefully, but everything seemed normal. So the four of them took an Adirondack chair each and sat, while Moped moved back and forth among them, visiting, seeki

Kind of nice to have the same people come visit each time, too!

That's very kind of you to say, and one reason I continue to do what I do. Writing the stories is fun. Sharing them is fun. It would be cool to make a million bucks off of each one of them, but we can't have everything! Thank YOU, too!

I had a pic of a '51 I was using as a model.

I wanted the guys to have a slightly different Halloween adventure this time. This is it.

Oh, come on! What self respecting ghost hunter wears spats?