Virginia doesn't return for hours after she is gone, and the entire family begins to serach for her in every corner of the house. Just when Mr. Otis decides to contact Scotland Yard in the morning, a secret door opens in the wall and out walks little Virginia with a box in her hand. Everybody runs up to her. Virginia says quietly, 'I have been with the ghost. He is dead, and you must come and see
him. He had been very nasty, but he was really sorry for all that he had done, and he gave me this
box of beautiful jewels before he died.'
Then she led the others down a narrow secret corridor to a little low room where Virginia kneels down beside Sir Simon's skeleton and prays. The twins then notice blossoms on an almond tree which is a sign that the god has forgiven Sir Simon.
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