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"Isn’t that what got you in trouble in the first place?"

"But that was Ohio! This is New York City If girls can dance half-naked in nightclubs, I don’t see why I can’t do a little divining"

"People aren’t afraid of half-dressed girls in nightclubs"

"You think people would be afraid of me, then?"

"People always fear what they don’t understand, Evangeline History proves that I suppose if people were drinking…" Will didn’t finish his thought "And you say you had one of these… episodes with Ruta Badowski’s shoe buckle?"

Evie nodded "I saw a terrible rooe furnace and the outline of a man, I think But it was only a silhouette, a shadow I can’t be sure" She shook her head "Do you think what I saas related to the rim "I don’t know"

"Do you think I should tell the police?" Evie asked

"Certainly not"

"But why not? If it would help…"

"Most likely they’d think you were soet her name in the papers Terrence and I have been friends for some time I kno the police think"

"But if I could read so to Tommy Duffy, for instance…"

"Absolutely not," Will co to do with these th of the parlor Midway, he stopped to tap his ash into a tall silver ashtray beside a navy-striped wingback chair that looked as if it had never been sat in It was as if Will’s coiled energy didn’t allow hih toto catch our killer with good old-fashioned detective work, even if we have to go through every occult book in the museum’s library"

"So… I can stay?" Evie asked

"Yes You can stay For now But there will be new rules There will be no further cavorting in speakeasies And you will be expected to help out around the museum"

"Of course" It was better than a train back to Ohio And once she proved to Will how indispensable she was, he’d have to keep her on for the long run "Thank you, Unc" Evie threw her arms around Will, who stiffened and waited for her to withdraw