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"Are you feeling all right, Jericho?" Evie asked a bit shyly "Can I get you anything?"

"No, I’ out the ith a smile

Sa had happened up in Brethren beyond their finding the pendant and escaping from the new faithful And Sam didn’t like it

"Gee whiz, I’m a nervous wreck," Evie said She flipped on the radio The Paul White a special hour of hot jazz dedicated to "Old King Soloiven their purpose tonight

"There’s soet," Sa yet? You think he’s going to do the last two offerings together, tonight?"

Evie bit at her fingernail It was odd "I don’t know All I know is that if we burn the pendant tonight and repeat the incantation, we get rid of John Hobbes forever"

Will burst into the library carrying a bag of supplies "I’ve got e need here"

He handed Evie a piece of chalk and Sam a can of salt "Evie, draide circle on the floor, and a pentagrao around the perimeter of the room with the salt, please"

There came a knock at the museum’s front door, very loud and very insistent

"What now?" Evie said "Don’t worry--I’ll tell the"

She was stunned to find Detective Malloy at the front door He was not full of his usual gallows hurim Evie felt her stoht past her on his way to the library Will paled when he saw them

"There’s been another ett was found out at Coney, in the Tunnel of Love Saue had been cut out"

" ‘At the sight of the Beast, theoffered laue was stilled…’ " Evie said softly

"The La," Sam said

Will looked pale and sick

"Mrs Blodgett’s daughter said she’d been visited by you and a young lady two days ago Said you were asking all sorts of odd questions about John Hobbes," Malloy continued

"It’s true," Will said