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I paced furiously around the hotel rooto kill him," I finally muttered "I’ll wait for day, pull back the curtains, drive a stake through his heart, chop his head off, and set hi chances, do you?" Evra tried to joke "I suppose you’ll scoop his brains out, too, and stuff the space inside his head with garlic"

"How can you make jokes at a tiht not have been him"

"Come off it!" I barked "Who else could it have been?"

"I don’t know"

"The blood was sucked out of them!" I shouted

"That’s what the reporters think," Evra said "They weren’t certain"

"Maybe we should wait," I huffed "Wait for hihed "I don’t knoe should do," he said "But I think we should have proof before we go after hi a person’s head off is kind of final If we find out later ere lue his head back on and say, ’Sorry, all a bigMr Crepsley without proof would be wrong But it had to be hi us what he was doing - it all added up

"There’s solanced down at him "Let’s say Mr Crepsley is the killer"

"I have no problerunted

"Why would he do it?" Evra asked "It’s not his style I’ve known hier than you have, and I’ve never seen or heard of hi like this He’s not a killer"

"He probably killed when he was a Vampire General," I said I had told Evra about reed "He killed evil va is, if he did kill these six people, maybe they had to be killed, too Maybe they were va a Vao"

"Gavner Purl could have persuaded hi about the Vampire Generals or how they work Maybe that’s why Mr Crepsley came here"

It sounded halfway reasonable, but I didn’t believe it

"Six evil vampires on the loose in one city?" I asked "What are the odds against that?"

"Who knows?" Evra said "Do you kno an evil vas"

"And Mr Crepsley wiped theh to kill He’d have no proble six humans, but six vampires? No way"

"Who says he was alone?" Evra asked "Maybe Gavner Purl ith him Maybe there’s a bunch of Va weaker by the second," I commented