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"Dad," Jude explained "Hey," he called back "In here"

"Do you want co aloud with each other Anotherat all," Jude said

Andreas still a little hesitant when he came in the room

"I neverat all," Whitney replied, grinning

"Dad, sit, do you want a sandwich?"

"I--I heard voices I was just checking to ed to Whitney "That’s the best you can do when you live next door to your son Stay ahen you should, check up on his interests when you should"

"And you do a great job of it," Jude assured hiht that his affection for his father was real and adh the parent-child connection existed as well Their bond was tight, and she was only sorry that it made her like Jude Crosby even more He was really far too easy to like

Jude set down the papers he’d been looking at and shook his head "But, if you heard voices in here you didn’t think were mine or a friend’s, you needed to stay on your own side and dial 911"

"Son, I was patrolling the streets when you were still in diapers, re for me?"

"Yep, yep, I do," Andrew said

"And that would be…?" Jude asked

"Blair House!" Andrew announced with pleasure "I have a book that lists as its sources a number of books at the NYU library In the history section there’s a copy of a ledger that’s at the Pierpont Library The family ned Blair House from the 1860s to the 1890s was in financial trouble by the end of the century They kept the place as a boarding house And guess who stayed there?"

"Jonathan Black?" Whitney asked

Andrew stared at her again He nodded, uess"

"There’s a signature--Jonathan Black--of a uest in March 1891 One month before the murder of Carrie Brown So, before he wound up at the House of Spiritualism, Jonathan Black checked into Blair House That had to be one really bad, creepy dude I wonder if he watched the people over at the House of Spiritualism, and then moved in on them!"

As they listened to Jude’s father’s announcean to buzz She quickly looked down at the text that had come to her It was from Jackson Crow As usual, he was brief "Have arrived Settling into Blair House"

"What is it?" Jude asked her

"My tea passed through Jude Crosby’s eyes Was it regret? So of a strange regret herself

She’d liked working with hiun to…bond, after a fashion

And now…

"Well, Jackson is just the ation," she said briskly