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Chapter 6

The Noise on the Roof

THE FIRST NIGHT that Elena spent in the old house, she had her mind made up she wasn’t going to sleep. She lay in the bed with her eyes wide open, watching and waiting, listening for every sound. But as it got later and later, her eyelids began to feel heavier and heavier. She started to drift away to sleep.

But then something made her open her eyes again. It was a sound up on the roof of the house—a pounding noise, like someone was up there driving nails with a hammer. The pounding went on for maybe two or three minutes, and then Elena heard a sound like slow, cautious steps walking across the roof. And then there came a loud thump! And heavy footsteps went running across the roof. And then Elena heard a long, loud scream: A a a a i i i i i i i i i !

She screamed too when she heard that. She jumped up in her bed. Her father came running into the room. He practically knocked the door off its hinges.

“What happened?” he demanded. “Why did you scream?”