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Cas "I’m very sorry, Mrs Buffet Please, tell ave Cam a small smile "My sweet Deborah, she was always happy, always up, that girl, always singing She had a great voice, a big voice, like Judy Garland, and she loved to sing She’d coar cookies and she’d singto when soirl like that?"

"It was a terrible thing, Mrs Buffet, for all of us"

"Not just terrible, no, it’s an evil thing In all my years I’ve never found an answer to evil" Mrs Buffet turned her head away to blot her eyes, then looked back at Ca, who knows? I’ll tell you what I saw last night It ht help you catch that monster"

Ca lady, I’ives me " She nodded toward the lacy white curtains hanging still, since there was no breeze co just there, looking out at the stars, once everyone’s lights were turned off for the night

"It was around lass breaking, but really ht soers froain, but to be honest, I didn’t think much more about it" She huffed "Where are their parents? I’d like to know"

Cam smoothly steered her back "You didn’t call 911 to check it out?"

"No, not then Everything was quiet again It wasaround the side of Deborah’s house, and then a ht hand He walked away from the house, didn’t hurry, could have been the ht he’d co a shortcut I watched hi Do you think it was him, that monster who murdered poor Deborah?"

"It’s likely, " Mrs Buffet laughed, but it soundedto me But I mean he moved easy, not like he had a stiff knee or sore joints S a short coat, maybe black or dark blue, I think, and a cap He looked pretty ordinary, co on the cap? The color?"

"Hreen, with letters, like a John Deere, but it was so dark I can’t be sure"

"That’s good, Mrs Buffet Did you get an idea of how tall he was?"

"Let me think about that Everybody’s tall cole year, that’s what hs and pats my hand, says by the tih!" She beamed at Cam, then shook her head "Maybe he was about as tall as Doc, not fat, but I really can’t be sure because he earing that dark coat I thought that was odd, since it was very war it to hide the knife he used to kill my poor Deborah?"