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She offered Sarah a bright smile, then turned pale "Those poor people I bet they really do haunt the house Can you iet du about Pete Albright thisburied in the house And now it turns out those stories were true I know I’d be furious enough to be haunting the place if my body had been duhed at that "Caroline, if someone dumped my body out of my coffin, I wouldn’t care because I’d already be dead My friends and family would have to be furious foraround after we’re dead"

"You an atheist or so?" Barry asked, surprised

She shook her head "No, I believe in God and the afterlife, and I even like going to church That’s o to heaven or…wherever e die We’re no longer tied to our bodies So if I was dumped out of a coffin, I doubt if I’d know it, and if I did, I wouldn’t care I ing around to haunt anyone, that’s all"

"It’s that ti "She worked in a bunch of old graveyards I guess she got used to hanging out with dead people" She gave an exaggerated shudder

"If you go over to the old cemetery just down the street, they tell you that you’re only seeing half of it, that the street is paved right on top of hundreds of graves," Sarah said "And the tourists eat it up So if I get a good haunted-house story out of this, is that so bad?"

Renee shivered and moved closer "When they said human bones, it scaredand all…"

"Renee! You thought someone murdered her, then hid her body in my house--behind a wall, no less--and I never even noticed?" Sarah asked sarcastically Renee turned bright red, and Sarah instantly felt sorry Renee was a good docent; she just seemed to be a bit of an airhead in real life She was pretty and sweet, and kids loved her, but Sarah couldn’t quite understand how she and Barry had ended up in a relationship Barry was inquisitive and intuitive, and knew a lotmaterial the docents received And Renee was…Renee

"Well, of course…not," Renee said "I’ and it has me worried, you know?"

"No, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to ju girl was the first thing you thought of I’rateful that ‘my’ bones do seem to be very old ones You know, I’ve heard stories about this house, but never anything about a crazy undertaker filling the walls with his…clients I’ to have to do some more research and see what I can find out"

"The only way you would have heard the story would have been if so them out," Will said, his tone ironic

She cast hi out the open door to where a crowd had gathered on the street, a uniforuy"

"What guy?" Sarah asked

"Don’t go staring," Will said

"Why? Whoever he is, he’s in front of ripped Will’s shoulder and looked past hi

"It’s hiasp of her own and said, "Oh, ot hoht I knew him from somewhere…oh, my God!" Caroline said "You don’t think that--"

"He was a creepy old undertaker after the Civil War and stuffed a bunch of bodies in the walls?" Will asked, laughing

Caroline flushed "No It’s just that--"

"I knoho--" Will began But he didn’t get a chance to finish Lieutenant Ti their way

"Let him in, Fred," Ti to the unifor the onlookers back

Sarah watched as Fred let the ht Tim’s arm

He turned back to her "What?"

"Ti hi to tell you He’s a diver, and he just did some ith us"

"A diver?" Sarah repeated, confused

"He’s actually a PI with soinia or DC--and he’s a diver," Tim told Sarah "He’s connected, too The captain told me to help him out as much as I can Will you excuse me?"