The ghost chuckled. “Oh, goodness, don’t be frightened of David. He wouldn’t harm a flea.”
“But he ate you,” Spaulding blurted out.
Mr. Radzinsky flapped a hand at him. “Shh! He bears a lot of guilt about that. He wouldn’t have done it if he hadn’t been suffering from an undiagnosed mood disorder.”
“After all, what had he really seen? Just a pale, smelly, dirty person wearing a squashed hat. With some flies and bugs on him. And yeah, he’d acted a little unusual, but it was a pretty big lap from there to Night of the Living Dead.”
Say hello to Sam Wu, a boy who is NOT afraid of ghosts, or snakes, or cats, or… well. 😛
“But I might come back to haunt you,” said Ruby.
“Of that I am certain,” said the housekeeper. “You haunt my every waking hour, why give up the habit when you’re dead?”
My first Ruby Redfort book, but certainly it won’t be the last one! I will be getting this whole series. Maybe, I will wait until summer and my vacation, so I can eat, um read, these while relaxing in the sun (at least I hope it will be sunny :P).
Hitch looked at his watch. ‘Look kid, you need to get going. I have you covered until six but your parents are going to think you have gone AWOL if you don’t make it home by dinner.’
Hitch looked heavenwards. ‘He’s a professional, you’re not meant to notice.’
