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"I felt like I knew hiood-looking--"

Caroline stared at her hard

"Okay, I adorgeous he reed "I don’t know, I just had a feeling about him… It’s like he looks like soned in? I’ll go look And as for you scaring tourists, have some patience with the kids, huh? It’s no wonder they’re sounding a little gruesome Have you seen this?"

She picked up the local newspaper, which had been lying next to her computer

"Seen what?" Sarah asked "I didn’t read the paper today--I left right after I woke up and ca, you know?"

"Oh, how’s that going?" Caroline asked

"Loudly"

Which was the understateht She loved the historic property she had bought after her recent return to town, but it was badly in need of not just refurbishing but reinforcelas, had tried to salvage it before the days of coht have been torn down but she hadn’t had the funds to do all the necessary work When Mrs Douglas turned eighty, she had decided she was never going to get to it, so she decided to sell and offered the house to Sarah first, because Mrs Douglas had been friends with Sarah’s rand, another special deal because she had been so close with Sarah’s grandrandmother had been born a Grant, and the property was known as the Grant House As far as Sarah knew, her mother’s side of the family had actually come from Savannah, but since the nainary--had helped her to acquire the property, she illing to go with it

"I’ve wanted to live in that house for as long as I can reht you were crazy Old Mrs Douglas never did anything with it, and we’ve been watching it crumble all these years," Caroline said "Reht went in that Halloween? Hoe o in? Sohost, saying he’d quit being quarterback before he’d sleep in the place all night He said he heard ghosts in the walls and could feel the to touch him He was absolutely terrified"

"Of course he was We were just terrible We told him all those old tales about the woman who sold potions and voodooed people to death And we told him it was full of corpses--which it had been, of course, since it was a mortuary for years"

Caroline wrinkled her nose She was a petite blonde, cute and winsoht back in the day

"We were horrible But he could be pretty macho, so I kind of think he deserved it And as for you, well, you’re just crazy for living there That house is spooky"

"I’ve slept in the house, and it’s just fine And I applaud Mrs Douglas She couldn’t begin to afford to fix it up, but she kept it froed "Although I do wish she’d fixed at least a few things"

Caroline smiled "Hey, you wanted history Not , I like history fine or I wouldn’t be working here," she was quick to say Not that she really had e House was a private museuustine the year before she was born, e it their houstine was the oldest continually inhabited European-based co before the English stepped foot in Jaer before the Mayflower sailed across the sea They were history buffs, and they hadn’t started up their business to get rich; they simply loved what they did Caroline’s father, Harry, wrote history textbooks, and that endeavor, not theand electric that work any day And a roof that doesn’t leak," Caroline told her

"I hear you," Sarah adnificent And in a year’s time, I’ll have it all set up as a bed-and-breakfast, and I’ll run a collectibles and antiques business out of it, as well You’ll see," Sarah assured her

Caroline laughed "We should both live so long"

"Hey!"

"Sorry You’ll get it done I just don’t envy you the process I grew up in the middle of constant renovations, reh, ere in the dark for weeks No closets--they all had wardrobes back then No whirlpool tubs" Caroline frowned "And I’ With everything that’s going on, I don’t think it’s safe"

"What are you talking about?"

"I et sidetracked too easily"

"What happened?"