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The sounds were fa offon hard floors, but it was the smells that had transported her Of books and cleaner, of lunches languishing and rotting behind hundreds of lockers And fear High school s else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfuether a dossier for you,’ said Mrs Plant, the school secretary ‘I wasn’t here when Madeleine Gagnon went to school In fact, none of the teachers or staff is still here That was thirty years ago But all our archives are on computer now so I printed out her report cards and found so these’
She put her hand on a stack of yearbooks, the secular school’s Bible
‘That’s very kind, but I think the report cards will be enough’
‘But I spent half of yesterday in the storeroo these’
‘Thank you I’ent Lacoste hoisted the the file on top precariously as they left the office
‘We have some pictures of her on the wall, you know’ Mrs Plant walked ahead The halls were beginning to fill and the place echoed with unintelligible shouts as kids hailed and assailed each other
‘Down here All sorts of pictures I have to get back to the office Will you be all right?’
‘You’ve been very helpful I’ll be fine’
For the next few , concrete corridor, looking at old photographs fraovernnon S life Jostled by the kids noding into the halls Agent Lacoste wondered what high school must have been like for Madeleine Did she also smell of fear? She didn’t look it, but then the most fearful people often didn’t
Gaain and reached for his coffee They all looked at the new list Under the heading How are the two séances different? he’d written,
Hazel
Sophie
Dinner party
Old Hadley house
Jeanne Chauvetinterviewed the psychic had said she wasn’t prepared for the first, it had been Gabri’s little surprise, and so she hadn’t taken it seriously She’d judged they were really just a bored group of villagers looking for titillation So she’d given them the cheap, Hollywood version Silly melodrama But when someone later told her about the old Hadley house and so the dead there had come up, she’d taken it seriously