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Eight years ago, a college student, Sa to break into a historic house and rearrange a few iteone so well; he’d tried to dis electric volts shooting through hiround near the back door the following ically the joke had been on hio, another of the older docents or tour guides, Angela Wilson, had been found dead in Tarleton’s study She’d been sitting in the same chair, in the same position, as Julian Mitchell She had died of a massive heart attack

One death froht well be a perfectly natural cause for soe, a heart attack

And now a h his throat--as if he’d set his own chin atop it for the blade to run through

Tyler druers on the desk

He was here because of Adam Harrison Adam had a love of and connection to various historic properties Technically, the Kreere Adao Everything that had happened here could have been natural or accidental

But Adaht

Add in the trashing of the s for so What? And why?

And how did any of it relate to the fact that Artie Dixon was in a coan Raintree, one of his best friends, a fellow Ranger at one ti--or nothing?" Logan asked "Do you need the rest of the Krewe?"

"So," Tyler said "And yes I’d like you to co on?"

"Nope But the house has been closed down for the interiht," Logan proh another call When he reached Adam Harrison, he asked about keys to the attic

"The board members all have a key, and so does Allison There’s also a key in the se room, where the e It’s always hung on a peg there"

"Is the pantry locked during the day?" Tyler asked

"No, not from what I understand The eet to their own belongings No oes into the house without a docent or tour guide, and they’ve never had trouble before"

"I’ll see if that key is still in place, but a lot of people have keys They could have been used--or copied at a previous date"

"How are you doing?"

"I lost uide," Tyler told him

"I can call so to do Bring in someone who hadn’t discovered a dead friend at the house Soation

But he realized he didn’t want anyone else

And as far as her attitude was concerned… It didn’t matter if you believed the world was round or not, because it was round regardless of what you believed

Eventually, Allison would accept the fact that soe House

And as Todd had suggested, it liked her

"Thanks, Adains to show soive her ht, and we’ll see where we are then"

Ada up Tyler i there, so access to the attic was ridiculously easy He returned to the study, picking up the folders that held infor, he looked at the painting of Beast Bradley

He’d been perceived so differently by the two artists

He stood, fascinated by the painting, and walked over to it A Plexiglas cover protected it and he saw that, apparently fro, it had resided on that wall to avoid direct sunlight