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"So what about Mr Griffin?" Caleb pro," Will said

"He is He wandered into my house," Sarah said

"What? Impossible--he has to be dead He was older than tio," Will told her

"He’s one hundred and two," Sarah said

"And off his rocker, I’ll bet," Will said "You rounded for a hen he called h his yard!" He snorted indignantly

"Why are you so bothered by seeing hiht?" Caroline asked

"I’d like to kno the hell he got into your house," Caleb added

Sarah looked at hi like mercury "I just stopped by the house to see if anyone was still working, and they weren’t I was on my way back out when he walked in"

"You didn’t lock the door?" Will demanded

"Sarah!" Caroline said

"Please, you should know better," Barry told her

"Oh, co to stare at Caleb It was obvious in the way she looked at hi how the ht be pissed, but too bad He was glad that he had spoken With this much pressure froain

But it sure as hell wasn’t going to help hiet to know her better

"What did the man say?" he asked quickly Maybe if he shifted the conversation’s focus, it would improve his position with her

She hesitated briefly, then shrugged "He said that my house is evil, that it’s haunted He’s convinced that it…did sohter back in the nineteen twenties"

"He thinks the house did so to her?" Will asked, confused

"What? Does he think your house eats people or so?" Renee asked, bewildered

"No, no I feel sorry for the hter was on her way to my house to irls, the people ere living there then--and she disappeared," Sarah explained

She had finished off Caroline’s beer Caroline picked up her elass and studied it sadly

Caleb turned around anda circle in the air to indicate a round of drinks for the table She nodded

"Poorall those years--and never knohat happened to your kid"

"What if her bones were in the walls?" Sarah said

"What?" Will de yet, really," Sarah told hihty years ago"

Caleb leaned forward "Floby thought the bodies were all from around the same time period, back around the Civil War," he told her

"I hope he’s right," Sarah murmured

The drinks came When the waitress set a beer in front of Sarah, she frowned, as if wondering how it had gotten there Then she shrugged and drank

"Here’s the thing," Renee said "You really shouldn’t go back to that place"

"That place hasa cliché," Caroline said, exasperated "Every stupid horror ravates the audience for the saet the hell out! Co, even one you’ve coveted since ere kids Coed her friend "Caroline,bad has happened to anyone in that house for…well,theht, it all happened a long ti forto stay there tonight, are you?" Barry asked her

"The house hasn’t done anything," Sarah said again, reaching for her drink

Caroline was holding onto her own glass tightly now

"That old guy startledaround from one to the other of them "It’s terrible of me to be so upset"

"Not so terrible He was ato say!" Sarah protested