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He gave her a wan smile "It’s okay, doll Let’s call it even on that twenty bucks"

"Nice little crew you’ve got, Fitz," Malloy said He took in the room: the pentacle chalked on the floor The salt, half-poured The pendant "What’s going on here, Will?"

"If I tell you, you’ll think I’ve gone mad"

"If you don’t tellme don!" Malloy thundered "I don’t think you understand what sort of trouble you’re in here, Fitz!"

"Detective Malloy, please, what note did you find?" Evie pressed

"It ritten by Mrs Blodgett just before she died and shoved into the pocket of her robe Her daughter confir It names Will as the murderer"

Will reeled "What?"

"That’s a load of bunk!" Sam shouted

"She said we’d find the evidence of it at theher about the murders for some time, that you did it to drued He see Ruta Badowski’s broken shoe buckle "Mr Fitzgerald, you’re going to need to acco the little thief, too, for good measure"

"Oh, he’s clever He’s very, very clever," Will said, more to himself than to anyone else "Don’t you see? He kneere close! He knew! He got her to write that note He laid a trap, and alked right into it"

"Oh, Unc!" Evie said "What are we going to do?"

"What are you talking about?" Malloy asked