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She ignored hiain and headed back out into the sunshine

"What are you trying to do?" Bartholo tree, I felt that we needed to be looking intointo Let’s say that these murders were carried out by the same person That’s kind of crazy in itself Bizarre murders, or bizarre display of the victims Over ten years apart And both when people were suddenly reappearing in town Sam Barnard is suddenly back David is suddenly back"

"That’s two people," Bartholomew pointed out

"My brother is due in soon"

"Three people What a horde"

"Don’t be sarcastic It’s not at all gentle I decided that my function in death was to keep you alive, and if it takes sarcasm…"

His voice drifted She saw that he wasn’t paying the least attention to her He was looking down the street "There she goes"

"Who?"

"My lady in white"

"From the story you just told me, you were in love with Victoria"

He nodded

"Is she Victoria?"

He shook his head "I don’t knoho she is" He gave Katie his attention again "Okay, so, you wanted old police records-that’s ere visiting Liaht be able to get information from Liam, but they don’t hand out evidence to everyone on the street We’re not going to get any further on this today soelse Maybe we can find out who the lady in white is through old records Let’s go to the library"

"Okay, but aren’t you a bit fickle? What about Victoria?" Katie asked

"I know, in my bones-or lack thereof-that Victoria has moved on, and is happy The woman in white needs help" Bartholoo do so so the history of Key West, Katie looked up at Bartholo, and was surprised to note that he had e

She looked around quickly, but they were the only two seated in that section of the library Leaning across the table, she saw that he was studying wreckers

"Anything?" she asked him

"Yes!"

"What?" Katie asked

Bartholomew looked at her "I found my lady in white Look-look at the picture That’s her! You can see the picture has her in the saton Her parents died of a fever, and she and her brother were left in penury The brother earned command of a ship She watched every day for hiton was caught in a storm just off the south side of the island Lucy’s house was near O’Hara’s, and she spent the stor the ship would come home safely The wreckers discovered the ship, but not the body of Captain Wellington Some say that Lucy cast herself to her death from the same alk she had paced, and others say that she fell, trying to get a better vien to the shore when they were bringing in the flotsam and jetsam-and the bodies that washed up"

"You were here then," Katie reed until a few years later"

"But you didn’t know Lucy?"

He shook his head "She ht have been broke, but she was descended froentleman-surely you know that! But back then, social strata were strict No matter what my demeanor, manners and riches, I wasn’t easily accepted" He stared hard at Katie "You have to talk to her for me"

"Bartholomeill try," she said fire"

"That’s great Can we keep reading then?"

"Aha! I just found a reference to your house, Katie It was sold to Shahteen twenty-nine He purchased it froht it frolad I was named Bartholomew! They were all John in those days Thank the Lord" He looked up at her suddenly "Iine that, Katie Your ancestors would have watched ed And they certainly didn’t lift a finger to stop the injustice of my execution"

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