The night the ghost got in

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Summary:
This is a story of one night in the author's house. These extracts are from a fiction book by James Thurber : My life and hard times. It is an auto biographical story that means the author is writing about himself. But it is fiction as I said before.
The story starts with the author coming out of the bathroom after a bath and drying himself. That's when he hears footsteps downstairs near the dining table. He wakes up his brother Herman. Herman got scared and ran back into his room and slammed the door shut. James shut the staircase door. Hearing all the commotion woke their mother who came out and demanded to know what was happening. Although the author and his brother thought the sounds had been made by a ghost but they told mother that they believed there was a burglar in the house. Mother wanted to call the police, but the phone was downstairs. So she the her shoes at the neighbors window to ask them to call the police.
The police came along with some reporters. The police searched downstairs and when they found nothing they came upstairs to tell mother. That's when they heard the author's grandfather in the attic. They rushed upstairs to the attic. Grandfather believed he was still in the war and as soon as the police entered the attic started shooting at them.
After all the police managed to come out of the attic one of the reporters asked James about the matter. James told him about the ghost. At this all the policemen left.