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"Why can’t we find it?" Evie asked "I don’t understand why I can’t find the entrance It was here before It’s al it fro I’ There’s a parlor to the right"

They came to it, but the parlor’s pocket doors were closed "These were open before"

With effort, they slid theht moved slowly around the room But it was different, too The sheets had been removed from the furniture

"It wasn’t this way before," Evie whispered

"It’s like it was expecting us," Jericho said quietly

"Why did you say ‘it’?" Evie asked Jericho didn’t answer, but they were both feeling it--the house The house aiting

Evie’s flashlight beam crawled across the walls They see, she thought, and then chased the thought away It was hard to see anything in the gloo her with the reflection She blinked, and in the afteri, she swung the light around, but there was nothing behind her The house groaned and creaked

"I don’t like this," Jericho said

"What choice do we have? If we don’t stop hiht him"

"But we don’t have the pendant anyht be listening "How are we going to bind his spirit?"

"We’ll find so else," Evie whispered back "Or we’ll burn this place down if we have to"

Jericho ht?" He followed the thin beaht be so to see

"Jericho, don’t!" Evie called suddenly

A gust of dusty air blew into Jericho’s face He coughed and sputtered and waved it away It had a sickeningly sweet s flowers Jericho blinked and shook his head

"Are you all right?"

"Yes Fine," he said, but his voice shook