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"I I re about that You ht before finals," Eleanor continued, running through the history quickly "After Ben died, after Cassie left Everyone was in the Megaron when Minnie burst in and started screa about how Cassandra Millet was murdered by the headmistress and the Board of Monitors She clai Cassandra just outside of ca to tell the professors, but no one would listen to her"

"What?" I said, incredulous "The Board of Monitors?"

"Everyone in the dining hall went nuts, and the professors ended up carrying Minnie out and bringing her to the nurses’ wing"

"That’s why everyone thinks Minnie Roberts is insane," Nathaniel added

"She still ht be," Eleanor murmured "Rumor has it that her parents sent her to the loony bin last summer"

"Why would she co-time donors," Eleanor said "They probably wouldn’t let her leave I know mine wouldn’t" She looked at Nathaniel

"So you think she was telling the truth?" I asked

Eleanor snorted "No Not the whole truth, at least Why would the Board of Monitors and the headmistress bury Cassandra Millet alive? My brother would never kill anyone … let alone Cassie Why would anyone kill her?" Her voice trailed off After the séance, after Eleanor had finished tellingshe’d seen, I questioned her for hours about her for out of the ordinary about her behavior? The same questions the police had askednew to add Cassandra was beautiful, a straight-A student, no eneenerous to everyone she met The least likely person to be ht not even be dead," Nathaniel reht," I said "I summoned someone, but I don’t think it was my father"

"Either e need to ask Minnie," Eleanor concluded

When the bell rang, Miss LaBarge stood up and began talking about Plato and so attention Halfway through class, her lecture was interrupted by two raps on the door Without waiting, Mrs Lynch flung herself inside, wearing a gray frock and loud square shoes

"The heade put down her lecture notes and looked at s and followed Mrs Lynch into the hall, glancing back at Nathaniel and Eleanor, ere givinglooks