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"That’s what the sheriff said Amabel, do you really believe that Laura Strather, the woer and held somewhere before he murdered her?"

"What I think, Sally, is that your brain is squirreling around, and it’s just not healthy for you, not with everything else upside down in your life Just don’t think about it Everything will be back to norht, at exactly three o’clock in the h winds but no rain, soht Sally awake She lay there a moment Then she heard a soft tap on theAt least it wasn’t a wo over and pulling the blanket up to her nose Just a tree branch

Tap

She gave up and slid out of bed

Tap

She didn’t reh until she’d pulled back the curtain and stared into her father’s ghastly white, grinning face

Amabel found her on her knees in the middle of the floor, her arms wrapped around herself, theopen, the curtains billowing outward, pulled by the wind, screa until her throat closed and no sound came from her mouth

Quinlanher back to Thel else happens, I’ll be there to deal with it"

She’d called hi him to come and make her father leave her alone He’d heard A her she was in no shape to be on the phone to anybody, much less to that man she didn’t even know, to put down the phone, she was just excited, there hadn’t been anyone there, it had just been her ih

And she was still saying it, ignoring Quinlan "Baby, just think You were sound asleep when you heard the wind , just like those other times I’ll bet you weren’t even ahen you pulled the curtains back"

"I wasn’t asleep," Sally said "The wind had awakened "

"Baby--"