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Campers sitting near the fire

backed away from the heat.

“I have a story to tell you,” Old

Donny said in a low voice.

Chase shivered. “I’m scared.

And I haven’t even heard it

yet,” he said to his best friends,

Nelly and Will, who were sitting

next to him.

“You should be scared,”

croaked Old Donny, who had a

way of overhearing everything.

“You should all be scared,”

added Maude. Old Donny’s

creepy wife took her husband’s

thin, pale hand in her own.

“Darling,” she said. “Tell the

kids what they need to know.”

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