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V . The Otis Ghost For some days after this the ghost was ill . He only left his room to keep the blood stain fresh . When he got better , he decided to try a third time . He chose Friday , the seventeenth of August . He spent most of that day looking through his clothes . In the end he chose a big hat with a red feather , a rusty dagger and a shroud . A shroud is the long white cloth that people put around a dead body . In the evening a wild storm began . The wind shook all the windows and doors in the old house . It was just the kind of weather that he loved . His plan was this . First he was going to visit Washington . He was especially angry with Washington , because the young man always removed the blood stain . The ghost planned to make strange noises at him from the foot of the bed . Then , to soft music , he was going to stab himself three times in the throat . After that he was going to visit Mr and Mrs Otis . He wanted to put a cold , wet hand on Mrs Otis’s forehead . At the same time he was going to whisper the awful secrets of the grave into her husband’s ear . He was not sure about little Virginia . She had never insulted him , and she was pretty and gentle . A few deep groans from the wardrobe would probably be enough for her . But he really wanted to teach the twins a lesson . First he was going to sit on their chests and give them nightmares . Then he was going to stand between their beds as a green , icy - cold dead body . Finally , he was going to throw off his shroud and crawl round the room as a white skeleton with one rolling eye . This was his famous part of “ Dumb Daniel ” . At a quarter past eleven the house was still . When the clock struck twelve , he set out . The owl was beating against the windows , and the raven was calling from the old yew tree . The wind moaned round the house like a lost soul . But the Otis family slept on . They knew nothing about the danger . High above the storm , he could hear the loud snoring of the Minister . He stepped quietly out of the wall with a wicked smile on his cruel old mouth . The moon hid her face in a cloud . On and on he went like an evil shadow . At last he reached the corner of the passage to Washington’s room . He stopped there for a moment . The wind blew his long grey hair around his head . Then the clock struck a quarter past twelve . The moment was right . He laughed quietly to himself and turned the corner .
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