The Haunted Bookshop & The Prequel "Parnassus on Wheels". Christopher Morley

at my watch—it was nine o'clock, just an hour since I had left the van. As we neared the spot Mifflin kept looking ahead through the birch trees in a queer way.

      "What's the matter?" I said. "We're almost there, aren't we?"

      "We are there," he said. "Here's the place."

      Parnassus was gone!