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I knew that Dr Fibs had developed soy that would keep Mr Solo sleep, but he’d been in that bed for months, and it was all I could do to help hieways that would keep us hidden froet help, but Joe Solooing to be delayed one second ainst me and we made our way downstairs

"Don’t worry, Mr Solomon Mom’s probably in her office We can--"

"Not yourhard

"Professor Buckingham?" I asked It didn’t

It was harder than it should have been to feel Joe Soloht It was that the strongest man I knew see, cli down stairs and finally into the main hallway on the second floor I peeked out to make sure it was empty, then helped Mr Solomon out behind an!" I heard Buckingha of this?" She looked around and pulled us into a quiet alcove, lest any nosy eighth graders passed by and saalking the halls with Joe Solohost

"Now, you wait here," she ordered "I will get soet you back to your room"

"The necklace, Cammie Show her the necklace"

I’m not exactly proud of it, but I actually worried that Mr Solos--that maybe I had lost my memory and he had lost hisaroundit until I found the shaave it to her She stepped out of the shadows and held the sht

"Joe, is that…" she started

"I think so, Patricia I think…" But then he faltered and stumbled into my arms "I need to sit down"

Five minutes later, ere all settled into Mom’s office with , "What is it?"

"Your necklace, Caham said "Show it to the deal is," I said, taking it off again and holding it forward "It’s nothing, Mr Solo at her "I was in Roht a bunch of jewelry for everyone Souvenirs and stuff"

"Look at it, Cammie," Mr Solomon said, and I couldn’t help myself: I smiled because he sounded…like Mr Solomon I could tell Bex had heard it too

"Cammie," Mr Solomon warned, and I did as I was told

There was a s chain The chare tree covering the center, its branches touching both sides "What do you see, Ms Morgan?" my CoveOps teacher asked

"It’s a seal of so to do with Roht that necklace, Caham told me

"Yes, I did," I countered

Mr Soloht you didn’t remember?"

"Well, technically, I don’t But we know I got a bunch of jewelry at the street fair in Root it in Rohtened on the couch "I strongly suspect you retrieved that necklace from your father’s safety deposit box," Mr Solomon said, and suddenly it didn’t feel like a five-dollar trinket I’d picked up at the fair It felt priceless And that was before my teacher talked on

"What do you see when you look at it?" he asked

"I don’t remember, Mr Solomon I’ve tried, I swear I just don’t--"

"Not what do you remember What do you see?"

"It’s a crest," I said "It kind of reher Acadeht that hy I bought it"

"It’s not like the Gallagher Acadeher fa her head "I didn’t know I’ve never seen that" She turned to her sister "Abby?"

"Me either," Abby said "How is that possible?"

"Oh, very few people alive today would recognize it," Buckinghareat pains to remove all traces of her family seal when she inherited the mansion I’m not surprised you didn’t knohat that e closer toin as the crest lay in the palm of my outstretched hand

"Why did Matthew have it, Joe?" Abby asked

Mr Solohed and shook his head "I didn’t know he did Matt was…stubborn"

Mo I didn’t want to look at her, but her presence was like a fire burning at the corner of my eye

"There was a lot he didn’t tell me He knew I’d been a part of the Circle, and he kneas too elanced, almost involuntarily, at Zach "I think he was afraid of what I’d do if I found out how close he was getting"