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"Hoas the exhibit?" Jackson asked

"Interesting," Angela said

The waiter reappeared with their beignets and drinks, and took drinks orders fro fro we hadn’t known?" Jenna asked, blowing at sonet that had fallen on her skirt

"Well, we gained a really creepy look at a picture of Newton’s hanging," Whitney said

"And we learned that no one knohat happened to his body," Angela said "It was left hanging for days"

"Very ibbet hilad that’s outlawed," Whitney said e else?" he asked

"They have an interesting raphs froela said He looked at her, hoping there wasin the house in the future Hoas your day?"

"Productive," he told her "We have an alibi for the chauffeur"

"Can we really have an alibi for anyone?"

"Unless he was in on it with the senator, and the senator did throw his wife over the balcony," Jackson said

"I still don’t understand why David Holloould call us in to investigate what happened if he had been guilty in any way," Jenna said She dusted her skirt again "My Lord, these things are delicious, but that sugar is everywhere"

"Blow on it," Will teased "It’s just an illusion It will vanish in the air"

"Sugar doesn’t really vanish," Jenna argued

"And dust motes are in the air whether we see the to pull a rabbit out of , are you?" Jenna asked

"No, no rabbit I can produce a few other things if you like," Will told her "I’ve worked hts and projectors It’s far easier than you ic" To prove his point, he reached into the air, and suddenly, there was a handkerchief in his hands

He was good, Jackson thought

Angela jerked forward suddenly in her chair, staring at Will

"It’s just a handkerchief Clean, even," Will said

She griina Holloway didn’t coot into herthat the ghosts did kill her?" Whitney asked, confused

"No…I’ about the Church of Christ Arisen They use brainwashing techniques, really So…oh, God, I’ What if she was told over and over again about the ghosts, made to think that they weren’t only real, but that they were vindictive And what if soood theory, but she didn’t go over that balcony of her own accord--unless she ht backwards," Jackson said "But…"

"Maybe," Jake suggested, "she was lured out to the balcony by that kind of trickery, except she was starting to catch on, or she saw so…and then she had to be helped"

The waiter arrived with the two cups of café au lait for Angela and Whitney

They all fell silent until Jackson had paid, and the waiter went away

"That adds another element of the possible to the scenario," Jackson said "I’ve seen people do aestion Let’s face it, the house is big and old, and has an unbelievable history, and…ina even had a touch of the sixth sense herself"

"The ghosts in the bedrooina," she said with absolute certainty

"I didn’t say that," Jackson assured her "Here’s the thing, though Perhaps she was inundated with tales about the house--true tales, actually It would take a staunch soul not to be a little afraid that therethere And someone would know about the children ere ina had just lost a child It would have been easy to prey on herwas done to convince her that there was the ghost of a child in the rooela said "But how could soe in her mind that would do what they wanted it to?"