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294 RAINBOW VALLEYwould do when they were grown up where theywould travel the far, fair shores they would see.Nan and Di meant to go to Europe. Walter longedfor the Nile moaning past its Egyptian sands, and aglimpse of the sphinx.Faith opined rather dismallythat she supposed she would have to be a missionaryold Mrs. Taylor had told her she ought to be andthen she would at least see India or China, those mysteriouslands of the Orient. Carl's heart was set onAfrican jungles. Una said nothing. She thought shewould just like to stay at home.than anywhere else.It was prettier hereIt would be dreadful when theywere allgrown up and had to scatter over the world.The very idea made Una feel lonesome and homesick.But the others dreamed on delightedly until MaryVance arrived and banished poesy and dreams at onefellswoop."Laws, but I'm out of puff," she exclaimed."I'verun down that hill like sixty. I got an awful scare upthere at the old Bailey place.""What frightened you?" asked Di."I dunno. I was poking about under them lilacs inthe old garden, trying to see if there was anyliliesof-the-valleyout yet.and all at once IIt was dark as a pocket thereseen something stirring and rustlinground at the other side of the garden, in those cherrybushes. It was white. I tellyou I didn't stop fora second look.I flew over the dyke quicker than quick.I was sure it was Henry Warren's ghost."