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"She must be ready to crawl the walls It took inia, and we didn’t receive your call until an hour or so after the body was discovered" He checked his watch "It’s after htly "The police were left with no recourse, really There was the dead roups had been at the house all evening, along with a couple of other docents, and when Ms Leigh dialed 9-1-1, she was the only one on the preot there With a death of this nature, you have to be suspicious of anyone in her situation The sad thing is that I believe she’s entirely innocent And she’s just lost a colleague"

Tyler saw that Harrison’s ehost killed him?" Tyler asked skeptically

Harrison didn’t look at hi woh--is a professor, historian and scholar She teaches history at the university, except that she’s off for the suives tours at the house, but the point is--she does not believe in ghosts" He spoke with a grie in the near future

"I’d like to see her, get her out of here and then read up on everything that’s happened in the house," Tyler said "They aren’t charging her, are they?"

"No, but theyher to co you over and introduce you"

"You know her? Or you just met her?"

Harrison sreet politicians and those in law enforcerateful for help they’ve received I was here when the house hosted a dinner for up-and-co men and woh was very char I think you’ll find that she can tell you more than you’ll read in most history books So, we’re not best friends, but yes, I know her"

The door to the observation rooent eyes and a bloodhound’s weary joalked in Tyler had already ned to the "suspicious" death

"All the paperwork for the evening is coent Montague, you wanted to go to the house tonight?" Jenson asked

Tyler nodded "I’d like to get in while the evidence is still fresh"

Whatever Jenson thought of the "special" FBI unit that had been brought in, he didn’t let his feelings show "The crime scene people have just finished up," he said "They’ve been in there for about six hours collecting everything they can, but, of course, the house is a tourist location so they have hundreds if not thousands of prints I’ll get you Ms Leigh’s key to the house and the code to bypass the security system," he told Tyler "And, needless to say, we’d appreciate it if you shared any findings with us i without the help of the police," Tyler said, "so, yes, of course"

Judging by his quick smile, Jenson seelanced at Adaet her home"

Adam thanked hiation roo Tyler with narrowed eyes that gentled as she looked at Adam Harrison

The man just had a way about hiue He’s here to investigate the situation--and the Tarleton-Dandridge House," Ada cool assessment "The house?" she asked skeptically "The house caused Julian to slit his throat on his bayonet?"

"There’ve been a nuh," Tyler said

Allison turned to Adahost of a Revolutionary soldier?"

Tyler answered "No, Ms Leigh But the nue occurrences at the house, especially in recent years, suggest that so deadly pranks Actually, we’re here to see you hoht her hostility toward hio through everything that happened again?"

He shook his head "I’d rather you went through the house with me If you’re up to it, that is Otherwise, we’ll take you home, as I said"

She stared at hi, and it was fascinating to watch the eh her beautiful if red-riue, possibly a friend She’d been in the interrogation room forever She wanted a drink or siet the horror she’d witnessed

But he also knew that she understood why he needed to see the house now, as quickly after the event as possible She didn’t want to go back and see where her friend had died, but she understood that anything that ht be discovered would be most easily found before too much time had elapsed

She lifted her hands "Of course," she said with a nod "Are you co?" she asked Adam, her voice hopeful