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"Have you been visiting the library?" Liaas’s face twisted in a frown "The library? No I’m not etting at"

"There’s a bookfroas said "Look, I’ve been telling you the truth I knew about the kids breaking into the house I thought we could slip in, find soht I did not steal a book I’ around with?" Lias around Look, can I go back to work now?"

"It didn’t really look like you orking," Lia aroundin the inebriated tourist whoback to his hotel rooas stared at hias told him

One of Key West’s innu by theas," he warned

"I will Swear it," Vargas said

Lia that he wasn’t grasping at straws

"You see me," the apparition said quietly

It was the pirate The outline she had seen walking behind Lia under too one swain, a handsome man, perhaps thirty, decked out in the fashion of his day

He ht have been flesh and blood as he stood there He had been staring broodingly out the study , until she had opened the door

And seen hi"

She blinked He didn’t disappear

It was still broad daylight She ide awake, not drea," he said,away from theto come to the center of the room

He still looked real So da just as if he were Liaoff his hat in a broad and elegant gesture, bending low in a bow "Captain Bartholoh that travesty has since been righted And still I remain The Becketts and I are connected, you see"

She was silent, staring at hi--and hearing--a ghost

Ghosts Apparitions Spirits They were supposed to be nothing butand such places as the Vatican or Westminster Abbey, Notre Dame, the Lizzie Borden house They went about their spectral existences without stopping to talk to people, for God’s sake, and a man such as Liahost for a friend

Definitely, it had to be the pressure

"I aht on by the events surrounding randfather’s death, and the fact that a man was murdered on , handsome smile

"I knew you sensed me before," he said "Many people do Well, they sense me, and others, of course"

Kelseyher eyes on him all the time She tried to sit calhosts haunt this house, they should be the ghosts of randfather," she said "Ghosts are supposed to haunt the places where traus happened"

He reflected on that "I’m ever so sorry," he said

She sed "Lia a mental breakdown?" she asked

He walked around and sat at the chair in front of the desk, crossing one stockinged leg over the other She noted the heels on his shoes and the buckles, the brocade of his coat and the elegance of his waistcoat

They were so real

He sighed "No, I’m quite real Or surreal, I suppose For quite a while, I couldn’t begin to iine why I was still here, but first there was the issue with David Beckett, although I had been attached to Katie O’Hara She’s quite aht that rivals any I’ve come across Oh, there are others out there, of course Liaht But he is a Beckett, and he’s been forced to see s have co this breakdown?" she asked

He s his hat on his lap "Now? Hmm Well, Katie and Sean and Vanessa and David, Liam--and now you"

"Are we crazy?"

"Aren’t we all, just a bit?"

Kelsey closed her eyes, keeping them closed She opened the

"I’ to protect you soto protect me?" she asked