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"What was happening in the cellar?" Evie said to herself

Jericho stuck his head through the library’s doors He was breathless "Evie, so," she said and put the diary aside

PRELUDE

Me that had coht’s rain had sent a shower of autuolden carpet Octavia had asked Memphis to sweep the thee bin A police sedan wailed up Broadway, followed by a second and a third Me He stopped a neighbor as rushing past

"What’s going on?"

"Heard they found a body in Trinity Cemetery," the man said

"There’s lots of bodies in Trinity Ceraveyard," Memphis said dryly

"They think it’s the Pentacle Killer," the man said and hurried down the street to join the others Memphis abandoned his brooates of Trinity Ceathered, some folks still in robes, slippers, and head scarves Mothers shooed their children back to the sidewalks and told theood swat on the bottoentle hills of the old ce the Revolutionary War and still sported athat fact Me to see better

On the street, a cry went up It was followed by gasps andover the people like a drowning wave Memphis spied Floyd the barber and hopped down and ran to hi on?"

Floyd looked at hiood, Memphis"

Memphis felt as if he’d sed a piece of ice that was h him "Who is it?" he asked, but already his blood pounded in his ears, a prelude