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Kelsey walked up the stairs, wondering why she was so convinced that the answers had to be somewhere in Room 207 But nohen she went in, it seemed empty, as if all life--and death--had left it She was in the midst of well-tended period furniture and plaster dust

The bed was in bad shape She dusted the quilt, kicked off her heels and lay back

Kelsey closed her eyes and tried to reconstruct everything she’d seen, willing herself to view the iain In a few htly, and a silvery mist seemed to pervade the air Then it dissipated and the residual haunting began

Rose and Matt She, with her stunning dark hair piled atop her head, in her usual half-dressed state, the rest of her garments strewn about Matt in his dark suit, a tall hat, dapper but still rough around the edges

He strode furiously across the roo, "You won’t hold out on me! I want it, and I want it now"

"I don’t have it," she said

The rest of the scene played out as she kneould Just like he had before, he reached out for Rose and his fingers curled around her neck He strangled her, ignoring her pleas Then Rose went limp, dead, and Matt picked her up and threw her on the bed and the scene faded But this ti the death in her ure out what bothered her about it

Don’t think too hard Let it coot up and walked to the broken wall How had Sierra’s killer had ht in the middle of the inn’s sale and renovation?

A moment later, she went to herand looked at the sht of the old toolshed It was just used by the gardeners now, Kelsey assumed, but she was suddenly teo through the gauntlet ofwith their questions and fears But she wondered, if in the search for Sierra, anyone had inspected the toolshed She couldn’t ian hadn’t looked there

Kelsey leaned out theThere was a sturdy branch reaching up from an old oak; its leaves actually touched the outside wall Reflecting that she hadn’t been a to, Kelsey cli herself over, testing her weight It was absurdly easy to grab the branch, go hand over hand to the trunk, drop to a lower branch and then down to the ground

She started across the rounds and toward the toolshed

The door opened ses Inside, the s supplies and tools She entered cautiously--and heard so She studied the space in which she stood It was about twelve by twelve, and with the laer, the shelves andthat could ain, and it seemed to come from beneath her

The inn had a bases down there, in the various rooms created by the foundations But would a toolshed have a base itself

The noise cale word

"Help"

"Sandy?" Kelsey cried anxiously She fell to her knees, studying the floor There was nothing, no hint of cellar door or opening

SheShe ran her hands over the floor and felt a line, a slight ridge Following the line, she realized it was a flat three-sided door Probably the entrance to some kind of tornado shelter

She opened the door and peered in Pitch dark She’d have to go back to the house and get a flashlight

But she heard her name, called out in a soft, barely discernible whisper "Kelsey? Kelsey, please hurry!"