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"Well, they’ll knoe’re safe together, and these days, that’s a good thing I just feel a little guilty…"

"Because of rin turned real "If eren’t in the middle of a horrible mystery, I’d even suspect that Frazier knew exactly what you were doing and who you orking for--and called Adahtly on the lips "Co her blouse, she headed for the door

He watched her go, worried I from the statue

Toby Keaton and Marty Dean…as left of theic in his y reports would affirm, he was certain, that both victiiven to Charles Osgood to keep hih, it see his victiood shot of his drug cocktail immediately disabled his victiators did, that he could be hurt hiators drowned their prey; they disabled them before they could be attacked in turn

The killer was basically a coward But he was changing his enda He didn’t fit the profile of a killer who sought out a certain type of victim; he didn’t molest his victi to look like the kill itself was the goal

Jake’s head jerked up A killer who had started with an agenda, and now had discovered how er for ain Eventually, his need would make him careless Eventually--but how many would have to die first?

Downstairs, Ashley found Will and Whitney speaking quietly to one another as they watched the ela and Jenna were holed up in the study with Frazier Cliff hadn’t co her marinara sauce si back at the stove

Ashley decided that she’d take a walk up to the attic

There, she looked around They were definitely going to need all their household help back when the killer was caught, she decided Black dust covered just about everything; all the cases that held family bibles, period weapons, jewelry, buttons and other odd objects that had been owned by the family over the years

She walked over to the eet the Enfield back, and then wondering if she wanted it back

She felt someone behind her and turned quickly, but there was no one there

"Marshall?" she asked

But her ancestor didn’t appear A sense of discomfort and aloneness filled her She had never felt so in her own house She hurried back out to the small attic hallways and made her way down the narroooden stairs

As she walked toward the grand staircase that led to both parlors, she paused She saw that her ghost was now

There was no one on the second floor then; Jake’s door--the door to the Jeb Stuart room--was open, but no one was inside

She walked up to Marshall, who looked tor to scare me?"

"No Why would I try to scare you?"

"Well, I don’t know You led ht have been killed"

"Good God, I didn’t know anyone was in the woods And what descendant of mine would fall off a horse? You should be a better rider, young woht?" she demanded

"You," he said softly

"Me?"

"I followed you when I heard the thud"

"You’ve heard what happened today, of course"

"Of course I’hly attuned," he inforht have been killed!" she told hi so senselessly"

"But you ledon"

"I will protect you--even from yourself!" he vowed valiantly

"And you weren’t behind ain

He looked toward the stairs She was startled by the look of agony that seeo in the attic," he said

"What?"

"I can’t go in the attic!" he repeated "Leave it be, dao in the attic!"

He ry with her; he disappeared in a blink

"I’host," sheto "

As she walked down the stairs, she wondered if she had ever heard a story about E the child ould be one of Cliff’s ancestors