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their way to the house, with Clarence leading the

way. There was barely enough moonlight to avoid
obstacles. They circled wide around the house to
the back yard, tipped over the outhouse, and

stealthily carried it around to the side of the barn.
They were laughing quietly about their
misdeed as they circled around the house toward

the car. They were just passing the house when the
front door burst open, and the farmer came flying

out with a baseball bat in his hand. He ran straight
toward them, and there was nothing they could do
but head back toward the barn.
With Clarence leading the way at breakneck

speed, they ran around the back of the house and
out into the pasture. When they were quite a

distance from the farmhouse, they turned toward
the road. It was then that they realized someone
was missing. It was Alice.

“I know she was close to us up to when we
ran past the hole where the outhouse had been,”
Elizabeth said.

No one had seen her past that point, and it
quickly dawned on them what had probably
happened to her. They hurried back, and by the

time they got to the scene of the crime, the farmer
was already fishing Alice out of the outhouse pit.

Soon, Alice was standing, shivering, by the rest of
them.

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