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They entered the Trey Hardy cell The room had been updated effectively The door made it feel like a jail cell, but the beds were plush, and the television stand looked new but was Victorian in style, as were the dresser and bedside tables A wardrobe doubled as a closet in back There wasn’t much extra space around the furniture, but then the Old Jail hadn’t originally been designed to offer luxury suites

Jane stood in the bedroohost had beckoned her here, and yet she didn’t see hi here?" Kelsey asked "You have the Sage McCor part of the night there? Did you want one of us in here with you--or do you think that will hinder Trey’s appearance?"

"I hadn’t planned anything I just saw the writing on the mirror and found out that the couple ere supposed to be here had left," Jane said "So I took the roooing on? Sage or Trey Hardy" Kelsey lay on the bed and closed her eyes "I’etically

"No, lie there for a minute I’ll just sit"

Jane did She sat on the foot of the bed and studied the roo to envision what it had been like in the past She focused herthe place without the bath and the wall separating it from the bedroom The cell would have been plain, the floor uncovered There ht have been a few narrow bunks in it The bathroo more

The cell was at the end of the jail that almost abutted the Gilded Lily Froht have been a barredthat looked onto the Gilded Lily Had Trey Hardy believed he was going to hang? He probably hadn’t expected to be gunned down in his cell, but he ht well have expected that his life was about to end

She rose and walked into the bathroo into the mirror above the sink She was sure that, at one tiht have paced the rooht here, she stood only about twenty feet away froht

And if the jail had a basement, the basement here would adjoin the room in the basement below the Gilded Lily, the one that held all the props and old mannequins

She opened her eyes Trey Hardy was there

He stood behind her He seemed as real as flesh and blood His eyes were dark brown, his hair was dark, too, and he had a handsome, weathered face The lines in it were attractive, as if he’d spent rave as he stared back at her

"Helpto help you"

He slaainst the wall, his expression bleak, frustrated She jued him "You can speak if you try"

His roan

He slaain and stas and buroan

Suddenly she heard a knocking on the outer door

"What the hell?" Kelsey cried, leaping up

Trey Hardy disappeared in a flash

"Agent Everett!" Mike Addison called "Agent Everett! Are you all right in there?"

Kelsey was already at the door by the tihbors orried What on earth are you two doing in here?" he de suspiciously fro "I was zoned out"

"Well, they heard a tre," Mike said "This is a wooden building, you know Sound carries!"

"Whatever they heardhis eyes "Kelsey was sleeping I was just fixing my hair I dropped et it Maybe that was it?"

"Well, keep the noise down, please Forgive uests"

"It wasn’t us, Mike, honest," Jane said sweetly "Maybe it was the ghosts--but the noise was probably because of whatever’s happening at the theater"

"Yeah, sure That’s what I’ll say," Mike said, turning to leave

Kelsey closed the door, rolling her eyes "Honestly"

Jane looked at her "It was Hardy He kept banging on the wall in the bathroo, but he can’t speak In all these years, he hasn’t learned how to speak to those who can see him"

"Where is he now?" Kelsey asked

"I don’t see hi on the doorhe disappeared"

Kelsey angled her head "I hope I can get one of your ghosts to speak with me, or at least make an appearance You can’t be in two places at the sahosts Most of their friends, of course, assu out of the Gilded Lily But I’m sure they’ll eventually communicate with us I just don’t knohat they can tell us" She paused "Sage sent s, but aside fro to tell us so and she quickly picked it up "It’s Logan," she murmured a few seconds later "He and Sloan are next door They thought we should eat"

"Yeah, food sounds great," Jane said