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Angela grabbed the film canister and handed it to Will He quickly searched for an outlet "They can work on batteries, too, but…I think the ones in this thing are dead now There--there’s an outlet"

He plugged in the projector and hit a button "Turn off the big overhead bulb Let the light in froed hie appeared It was the ie of a little boy--with an ax in his skull and blood creeping down his face

They heard a faint sound A whisper And it, too, was horrible "Mommy?"

"Da the volue moved, as if alive "Mommy?"

"Moe said, staring at the up, she turned on the light "I’m sorry, I’m so sorry! I can’t stand it That’s horrible, so horrible"

Even with the light on, they could faintly see the projected iela said "We knohat it is We can show Jackson, and he can get it to the police Noe know for a fact that so horrible tricks on Regina--a way to get her out on the balcony of her own room"

Will turned off the projector He was quiet a ela?"

"Yes," she answered

"But you weren’t seeing a projected iht?" Will said

"I wasn’t seeing a projected iela said

"So…do you think that whoever saw the ihost?" Will asked

"Not necessarily," Angela said "There are all kinds of pictures at the museum--and pictures of the children can be found there They’re probably also available in old newspaper archives No, I don’t think that anyone had to have seen the ghosts of the children to pull this off"

"Who the hell could have gotten into the house so easily, and ed this stuff?" Whitney asked

"Well, David Holloway, for one," Angela said

Jackson’s phone rang while he atching the senator sip a second latte It was Andy Devereaux

"Well, ent in, and we have a couple of guys in for questioning," Andy said

"Did you find anything? Anything at all to suggest that a murder--or murders--were committed there?" Jackson kept his eyes on David Holloway as he spoke

"Nothing There are a couple of girls here, and we’re trying to question them And I have two members of the church council, but no Martin DuPre, and they’re saying that they’ve never had anyone who matches that description as a member of the church I can hold all of the to hope that I can at least find proof of statutory rape, and thatMaybe you have a unique way of asking questions," Andy suggested "Right now, I’, that I can find out a few real nauys are going over the books But I need irl, Gabby Taylor, back to identify DuPre, if he’s really the father of her child Have you told any of this to David Holloway?"

"Yes, I’ht Get here in the ht be so you can handle with more intuitive questions I haven’t dealt with crazy cults before, though I have dealt with enough crazy teenage girls"

"Do your best, Andy"

Jackson hung up Both Holloway and Jake atching hiht be, Senator?"

"I gave hiht off," Holloway said

"Call hi

Jackson wasn’t surprised "I doubt if he’ll be reporting to work to It was Will "We’ve found so," he said "Are you still with the senator?"

"I a an to speak quickly, so quickly that he didn’t understand the gist of what Will was saying at first And then he did

"You need to see this," Will said "The question is--should you bring the senator with you or not?"

Together, they watched the iht about the fact that the answer had been in a trunk in the attic, and he grew cold The cruelty behind the creation of the iate such brutal torture was still walking around free was chilling

He watched Senator David Holloatching the i that "it hurt"

He watched tears form in the senator’s eyes, and then roll down his cheeks