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I nodded

"Eleanor never went to Attica Falls on Grub Day"

"She said she was going to the library"

"And did she return to the rooht?"

"No," I said "Wait, yes Yes she did"

Mrs Lynch gave me a suspicious look "In your short tiarnered quite the reputation for troubleave her a confused look "What?"

"Called to the headmistress’s office three ti--" I tried to say, but she continued

"Caught severely out of dress code; breaking curfeith a boy; blatantly disobeying the authority of professors"

"But that was all really just one ti out of line," she said with contempt "Where were you on Grub Day?"

"I was in Attica Falls People saw me there; you can ask Nathaniel Welch I ith hi?"

I hesitated "I was in ?"

"Latin," I said quickly

"And Eleanor was there that night?"

"Yes," I lied

"And you can produce no other witnesses of your whereabouts that night?"

"It was after curfew We were alone in our rooether on her lap

"Miss Winters, where is Eleanor Bell?"

"I I don’t know"

She sighed and then jotted so down on her pad "I think you do"

"But I don--" But she cut me off before I had a chance to respond

"And you said that she wasn’t"--she picked up her pad, referring to her notes--"No, forgive ht?"

I sed and nodded