Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost Page #3

interested in each other's lives.

Some people are

a little too interested.

Jon, if I'm volunteering

at the food drive this evening,

I'd like a list of qualified recipients.

You know, Mabel, Susan here

just agreed to help me out,

and being that she's new in town,

I figured it would be a good chance

for her to meet some neighbours.

Yes, I thought it would be

a nice way to say hi.

I see.

I hope you two enjoy

yourselves this evening.

Thanks.

Thanks for covering.

You don't really have to go.

I wasn't looking forward

to an evening with Crabby Crabtree.

No, I'll go. I think it's a nice idea.

I don't mind helping out.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Sounds like fun. Why not.

- Great.

- Great.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Are too.

- Am not.

- Are too.

- Am not.

Are too, stamped in infinity.

No erases.

You're chicken.

- Look, it's your four-eyed boyfriend.

- Fianc!

Oh, hello, dear.

I was just informing Dimwit

and the Pumpkinheads

that they're far too chicken

to attend this evening's sance.

- Sance?

- Of course.

Madame Roxanne Dupree d'Hunter

will be attempting to contact

the spirit of the long-departed

this evening.

I am so not frightened.

We'll be there.

- Right, guys?

- No way.

That place is totally haunted, man.

Yeah, last week our brother said

he saw a light moving in the attic.

No way.

A light, you say?

I'm not afraid of some dumb ghost.

I'll even spend the night

in the attic.

Very, very foolish words.

The call of the dead!

So why did you move back here?

Well, after moving around,

living in the city for a while,

I realised that everything

I was looking for was right here all along.

Oh, dear, dear, dear.

Emergency zoning board meeting.

Unfortunately, they get very upset

when the mayor plays hooky.

- Everything under control here?

- I think we can manage.

Good lad, thank you,

and thank you again.

Thank you so much.

You know, I've got a feeling

you're going to be

a real Serenity Falls kind of gal.

Hey, Sally?

Don't feel bad.

He called me Jimmy for two years,

and I grew up here.

So what was it

that you found here

that you just couldn't find

anywhere else?

You know, I think

it was a sense of place,

community, important things.

Most important thing

that I found?

Affordable health insurance.

Are you okay?

Fair is foul and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog

and filthy air.

Bubble, bubble,

toil and trouble.

Fire burning,

cauldron bubble.

What are you supposed to be?

Silence!

Madame Roxanne Dupree d'Hunter

needs silence to conjure

the lost souls of Moody Mansion.

You couldn't conjure a burp.

I wouldn't be responsible

if you make fun of the dead

and they wind up haunting

you and your descendants

for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Let us begin.

Come to us, O spirits of the house,

I command you.

- Maybe you should ask nicely.

- Silence!

Yes, yes, I feel the presence

of the Great Magoo,

of the Halley of comets.

I command you!

Show yourself now!

Told you.

You can't conjure no ghosts.

There's no ghost.

That happens all the time.

It is too the ghost!

It is too!

Roxy, there's

no such thing as ghosts.

- What was that?

- The raccoons getting back in.

But you closed the window.

My ghost trap... it caught her!

Ghost trap?

Roxy, be careful!

Roxy.

It's a ghost, Max, a real live ghost!

I think I hurt my head.

You're not a ghost.

He's a burglar! Call the police!

No, please, I'm not a burglar!

My name is Ramma.

Ramma Vindri. I live here.

You live here?

Yeah.

Anyway, you know,

I'm just a poor medical student,

trying to survive

my horrendous examinations.

That was really quite a trap, kids.

Well done.

How long have you

been living here?

Three months.

You see, last term I was asked

to leave my dormitory

due to a lack of funds,

but because I'd promised...

I'd promised my mother

and my father that I'd return home

only as Ramma Vindri, MD.

I thought my prayers were answered

when I found this abandoned house

and when people began to come around,

I moved up here to live,

just... just until I finished

the tests, you know?

How did you get in and out

without us noticing you?

Oh, my friend, I would...

I would leave very early

in the morning,

and I would come back

very late at night,

utilizing the trellis to...

well, to climb the window, you know.

Pardon me, I am so tired.

These exams are exhausting me.

I know what you mean.

You do believe it. You know.

But just yesterday I confused

the temporal lobe with the occipital.

I mean, what was I thinking?

You know?

Pretty soon I won't be able

to tell my left hand

from my right foot, you know?

'Hey, Doctor, which is the... '

You know, because l...

I guess now that

you've found me l...

I guess I won't be able to tell

a nice, warm attic

from a cold, lonely bus shelter.

How long do you have left?

The exams are over next week.

Listen, I'm very sorry

to have scared you.

You seem like... you seem

like very nice children.

Wait, Ramma.

You don't have to leave.

Really?

Right, Max?

No, I don't think

your mom will go for that.

We don't have to tell her.

It'd be our secret.

- Roxy, I don't...

- Come on, Max, please.

It's just for another week.

Besides, we can't just

put him out on the street.

Look at him.

Please.

Okay.

Thank you! Thank you,

you're the kindest children

ever to grace the earth

with your presence. Thank you!

- I'm home!

- Mom.

Ramma, remember,

no more stomping around.

No, I promise,

I'll be as quiet as an elephant.

An elephant

with extremely small feet.

Another case closed

by Roxy Hunter...

super-sleuth.

The ghost is real, Max!

A hawk took the ring

in the middle of the night!

Don't you see?

The ghost wants the ring back.

Roxy, there's no ghost, okay?

It's Ramma.

No, that was The Case

of the Noise in the Attic.

This is The Case of the Ghost

of the Ring. Totally different.

We have to find that bird

immediately!

Look, I have another exam to write,

I have to study,

and then I have to tell your mother

we let a total stranger

sleep in our house

without her knowledge, so no,

chasing an imaginary bird

is not on the itinerary.

I'm shocked, Max, truly.

You lack an appreciation for the mysterious.

- We'll have to work on that.

- I have to study.

So, this is what it comes to.

My own fianc.

Very well.

I will go on, Max.

Let me just say...

And...

And nothing.

We're just going for lunch.

- We're going to talk about bank stuff.

- Bank stuff?

Okay, he's cute.

He's really cute.

- But?

- Well, but...

But the bank has a policy

about employees fraternizing,

and... I don't think

I'm ready for dating.

Not ready for dating who?

Oh, nothing, sweetie.

Do you want some breakfast?

The hawk!

Hey.

What are you doing?

Nothing, sweetie.

Nothing at all.

Why don't you have

some breakfast?

Hey. Stay close to the house.

That's an order!

I'm still your mother!

The ring!

'Lt Theodore Caruthers,

'November 12, 1920,

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