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"Did you know my mother?"

"No, I am afraid I did not"

"Then how do you know that neither she norKey West?"

"This house is filled with pictures, Miss Donovan I would recognize both"

"Oh," she murmured, disappointed "What about Gary White?" she asked excitedly "He wasjustice!"

"I’ve tried to explain--not everyone reh life to death and what comes after without this time in the midst of the veil"

"Is that what it is, really?" Kelsey asked "A veil between life and death?"

"I don’t know That’s just what I’ve heard it called," he said

"I keep closing ," Kelsey said

"I won’t disappear I’ve been coether," he said "Noell, I’m sorry if it distresses you You will continue to see me"

Kelsey shook her head "It doesn’t distress ain"

"Kelsey, please don’t count on that," he said

"You were in the cemetery," she said "You spoke softly to ht that you had felt randfather believed that ht have been murdered, and Gary White was murdered," she said

"Yes," Bartholoiveover your shoulder"

"But you don’t knoho killed Gary White?"

"I wasn’t here," he explained

"And you haven’t seen Gary White? His ghost, I mean?"

"Miss Donovan, if I had the answers, I certainly would have given them to Liam by now! All I can do is help hiet fro Well, usually, it’s a pleasure Now and then, one does come across someone quite unpleasant who has stayed behind I’ll tell you what I know, and what I believe There was a man named Peter Edwards Whether all the stories about him are true or not, I don’t know But, supposedly, he used blackthe war, and, later on, got mixed up with a very evil man naan to regret what hewartiressions, and he tried to use the book your grandfather had--the book in this very roo around the ce about the books and what they are supposedly capable of doing, or enabling, is the key to what is going on now I don’t believe thatabout hexes and curses I believe they are capable of greed, envy, viciousness and violence"

"All right What do you think of Liarandfather’s notes, I think he’s right that someone knew about the real reliquary, and the fake reliquary, years ago I believe that person soh exactly how her fall was caused, I don’t know After my mother’s death…" Kelsey paused, perplexed

"What?" Bartholo happened Myhappened Not until Cutter died"

"Afor," Bartholoain Out the , she saw so around from the front to the rear of the house

"What in the world…?" she began, ju Bartholomew to follow in her wake if he chose…

If he was real…

She raced around to the back

She saw a man at the end of the dock

And then she saw Avery

He was facedown in the water, twenty feet fro, exciting beyond iination to watch!

Ah, they didn’t know…

He had been the one to do the screa Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, and it had worked so well

He was invisible

He paused for a moment Today, he had shaved it very close He had barely disappeared into himself before the others had coain, cutting it so close led to the brilliant wonder that he was feeling now

Victorious Amazed, amused, so vastly entertained

He watched, and he felt himself so incredibly clever, so jubilant

He backed away…

Soon, the fun would really begin

After questioning Chris Vargas, Liam returned to the station He realized he never had bothered to have lunch, and he el as he looked over the reports from the day

Gary White had played at a saret Street in the days before he had disappeared and died The owner hadn’t had much conversation with him Gary wasn’t a brilliant perfor soft tones that fit the bill for people who didn’t want loudaway from loud music in Key West wasn’t always easy

He had fixed a leaky pipe for a Mrs Vinnie Wilfred over on Si afternoon

He hadn’t been seen since