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"I did watch a few minutes of it before you arrived It’s really cute"

"Catch the haunted hayride, too"

"Sounds like fun Maybe I will"

People were spilling out of the theater He glanced at the crowd and griht"

"Good night"

He made a quick escape, and Jane soon realized why It had been a full house and forty or fifty people werein the bar It seeh and put the across the street to the saloon--too crowded at the Gilded Lily She could see that the theater was good for all the businesses in the area It brought those who then stayed at the Old Jail or other local bed-and-breakfast places or hotels and it brought people to shop and visit restaurants and use the stables

Liz ca else before the crowd got crazy Jane said no

"I told you, you’re totally on the house," Liz said, looking at the roaned "He always tips way too much Well, Lily is his town, and he tries to make sure we all do well here Wish he’d stay around!"

"You don’t think he’s going to stay in Lily?" Jane asked

Liz shook her head "No Not forever, anyway He’s popular here He’s a hed "He doesn’t smoke, but I could’ve seen hi Don’t you think?"

"He’s a very attractiveto sound noncoain "Oh, well You sure you don’t want anything else--more tea, some coffee orto call it a night" She reached for her purse; her fooda server work for nothing

"Don’t you dare leave ive h for five tables," Liz told her "Seriously, don’t you put down a dime!"

Jane didn’t want to insult the woht just do so "All right, thank you But, please--"

"Next ti orders fro chairs and bar stools

Jane didn’t see Henri Coque, Jennie or any of the actors yet--just the people who’d been in the audience She headed for the stairs She glanced around to see if the slightest hint of an apparition ht appear; none did She was convinced, however, that she’d seen the ihost in her rooe been busy in the bedrooone?

Jane turned the key in her lock, opened her door, flipped on the light and looked around Nothing seeed in the room "Hello," she said softly

"Hey!"

The shout cahs the door to the rooreet the resident ghost? If you’re worried, I can check out the room for you"

Brian was serious; he seeh he knew she was an FBI agent

"Just because you kno to use a gun," he said, walking down the hall toward her, "doesn’t ht not be afraid of the theater’s reputation"

"Brian, I’ haunted"

"But this is Lily"

"Yes, yes, it is"

He paused, looking a little disappointed "You don’t understand This toell, it saw a lot of violence The whole place is haunted, inside and out Are you positive you don’t want --no one--in your roo her with a co to use this as a pickup line? Did he think she’d ask him to protect her, so he could offer to sleep by her side?

He was dark and handsoh he played the villain, he had a pretty-boy flair to hi him to Sloan Trent Trent was far more seductive, even in his aard courtesy when he’d pondered opening a door for her She liked his looks, but she was still debating his reversal, fro Well, he’d wanted a seat to have dinner It could be as simple as that