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lunch has not yet arrived. It will be here soon," Miss Brayton informed him. "We will spread it in the main room here, if you have no objections. It will be cool and pleasant; and, besides, there are no flies in here." "For goodness' sake, forget your appetite," growled Ned in Stacy's ear. "Can't a fellow talk about his appetite without being found fault with?" Chunky sulkily retorted. "Not the kind of an appetite you have. It's a positive disgrace to the outfit." "Huh!" grunted Chunky, walking away. The lad wandered off by himself, and the rest forgot all about him in their investigation of the old church. Miss Brayton told them as much of its history as she knew. "Some of the former priests are said to have been buried somewhere in the edifice," she said. "I don't see any signs of it," said Tad. "No. No one ever has in our time. And it has even been hinted that treasure has been buried here, too, or secreted in some of the mysterious recesses of the church." "Where are they" asked Walter. "I am beginning to get curious." "I am sure I do not know," laughed the young woman. "There is a sort of garret, if you can get to it, above the gallery there. Maybe you might find something there. I have an idea that it is inhabited by bats." "I guess we will leave them undisturbed," decided Tad. "I don't like bats." "There come the servants," announced Miss Brayton. "Now your friend will be able to satisfy his appetite." At her direction the servants brought in the baskets of food. A cloth was spread over a stone table that they found at the far end of the church in the balcony. What its use had been, in those other days, they did not know, but it served their purpose very well now. "I am afraid we shall have to eat standing," said Miss Sadie. "We have no chairs." "That will suit Chunky," replied Ned Rector. "He always likes to eat standing." "Why?" asked Margaret, glancing up at him inquiringly. "For some reasons of his own," answered Ned mischievously. As the good things were spread before them the eyes of the lads lighted appreciatively, and all helped themselves gratefully. It was a jolly party, untouched by the air of mystery that was supposed to surround the place. "Why, where is Master Stacy?" asked Ruth Brayton in surprise, after they had been eating a few moments. "Chunky? That's so, where is he?" demanded Walter, glancing over the railing into the auditorium below. No on
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