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"A witch?" Vicky said "I’ll see if I can find anything about her in the ht and early"

"Oh? Are you off to tomorrow off, too"

Vicky looked at her sy you crazy about those bones, huh?"

"Yes"

"Just go on one of the big talk shows--get it over with," Vicky suggested

Of all the people who had called, Sarah thought wryly, unfortunately Oprah hadn’t been one of the," Sarah told Vicky, then left the library and headed ho up at her house, so s she’d just been reading The bones in her walls Mr Griffin’s words

She didn’t care what he said Houses weren’t evil

There were no cars parked in front of her house Still, she didn’t go inside, but headed for the carriage house instead

It felt…lonely

She turned on the television, opting forher to pay attention

She curled up on the bed, intending to read more of the memoir, but her mind was too full She finally admitted to herself that she hadn’t just expected Caleb to call her, she’d hoped he would She couldn’t wait to show hie that she had printed out at the library, not to er to prove her sanity to him

She turned back to the memoir, and as she read, she wondered about the words the man in her dream had spoken I didn’t do it

Clearly she didn’t want to h she had no idea what he could actually be guilty of After all, she was attracted to him He had been the one to mention sex, but it wasn’t as if she hadn’t already been thinking of it

As for Cato MacTavish, nothing she had read proved that he had been guilty of the disappearance or the murders In fact, the crimes had continued after he’d left tohich see around him, he’d been entirely innocent But there had been ru So, through the years he reh she was enjoying the es

Finally she put the book down and tried calling Tim Jamison He was theoretically a nine-to-fiver, but often a casehiht

She tried Floby, but he wasn’t available, either

She looked out theat her house Twilight was just beginning to arrive The heat of the day aning, and everything seelare of the sun

She left the carriage house, marched up the steps of her ho

And, she discovered in the kitchen, so her coffeepot--and her coffee There was even a half-full cup still sitting out on the counter All of which was fine, of course She just felt a bit like one of the three bears, trying to figure out who Goldilocks ht be, and whether Goldilocks was still in the house somewhere

No She could feel the emptiness

She walked into the back, where the library was--or would be The walls were still knocked out, but soh despite their best efforts the plaster dust was still ubiquitous

Floby hadn’t left her a note that day She wondered idly whether thecoffee

It suddenly occurred to her that she ht haveto lock the front door behind her She raced back to the front door and was relieved to discover that she had locked it But as she stood there, awash in relief, the e

She turned and found herself studying the beautiful entryway, the double doors leading to the two parlors, and the hallway that led deeper into the house If she closed her eyes, she could picture herself in the house as it must have been before the Civil War It would have been beautiful then Cato MacTavish would have been handsoht in his eyes as he flirted with his beautiful Eleanora He wouldn’t have been scarred yet by the horror of the war, by seeing his fellow soldiers and friends fall Eleanora wouldn’t yet have disappeared His father would have been alive, and Eleanorafor both the elder MacTavish and the younger, the man she loved The swish of taffeta would have accohter Sarah could alle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>