Under Padlock and Seal

At two in the morning, Elsie hears a grindstone hissing in the tool-house—and sees its window glowing faintly in the dark. If her cousin Brian isn’t sharpening a tool, who is?

At The Pines, a rambling old house where the clock ticks solemnly through the night, Elsie creeps downstairs to catch Brian at his forbidden midnight work. But the yard door is locked, the hour is far too late, and when she checks, both Brian and her brother Guy are fast asleep. Even Ida thinks Elsie has imagined it—until the strange sounds and puzzling household happenings keep the children guessing. Elsie may be brave, but what is waiting in the tool-house when no one should be there?

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