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I hope that , hereafter , you will give me your confidence . For you need fear no dismissal from the school over such a misfortune as is visited upon you . '' She took the sobbing , trembling French teacher away with her while Ruth ran up to Duet Two in the West Dormitory , in a much excited state of mind . Fortunately both Helen and Mercy had dropped to sleep and none of the other girls seemed to have heard the harp at midnight . So there was no talk this time about the Ghost of the Campus . To the other girls at Briarwood , the mystery remained unsolved , and the legend of the marble harp was told again and again to the Infants who came to the school , with the added point that , on the night Ruth Fielding and Helen Cameron had come to the hall , the marble harp was again heard to sound its ghostly note . No thought of such foolish , old-wives ' fables troubled Ruth Fielding 's dreams as she lay down on this night which had seen the complete exposure of the campus mystery and the laying of the campus ghost .