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Evie stopped mid-chew "You can’t be serious" She stared at Will "Oh, sweet Lois Lipstick, you are serious"

Will tossed his hot-dog wrapper in a garbage can "We’re going upstate, to Brethren And we’re going to need a shovel"

Jericho returned to the Bennington from the records department, where Will had sent him He didn’t even stop to take his coat off "I found it! The docuri room table with Evie "Sa Evie company," Sam said He smiled triumphantly at Jericho

Will read aloud frooode was taken to the Mother Nova Orphanage, where he was admitted on October 10, 1851 The director’s entries on hioode as quiet but ill-huant, and prone to sht before the director for discipline, he said only, ‘I aon of Old, chosen of the Lord our God’ The other children shunned him He called himself the Beast After tarted attempts, Yohanan successfully ran away in the summer of 1857 No further documentation exists"

"So we know it’s hi to stop hi it on the rack "The last page of the Book of the Brethren--the one with the incantation for binding and destroying the Beast--was torn out You said yourself that we have to dispatch hi to find that information in time? The comet arrives in two days"

"I need to show you so John Hobbes’s ring

"Is that what I think it is?" Will asked Evie nodded "This is becoeline"

"Will, if I can see him, understand him, we can be one step ahead of hiood idea, doll?" Sahost," Jericho added

"What good is it to have this power and not use it?"

"I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity," Sam said

Will crouched beside Evie "Evie, this isn’t a party trick This ring belongs to the Beast hiet e need, and then get out," Will advised Evie nodded "I’ll clap three ti you up If at any tier--"

"I don’t like the sound of that Do you like the sound of that, Frederick?" Sam muttered