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But as they walked, her smile faded She moved more slowly as they left the restaurant behind

He was surprised She was trying to draw out their evening together

Fine He slowed his pace, as well, curious about her reasons

They walked back along Market Street and the quiet of nightat the facade of Independence Hall seeine how the hotheaded politicians of the tih to "make thirteen colonies chihts," Allison said

"A penny? With inflation? My thoughts are worth at least two cents"

She laughed "I’ that it’s a ress today cooperating to make that kind of decision?"

"Good point," she said "Patrick Henry and Sam Adaree with each other They hed "And they put aside their differences to achieve that goal We can keep hoping! They realized that society would change over time When you think about the past two-hundred-plus years, they didn’t do so badly Most of them knew the slavery question would arise, but they felt they had to create a country before dealing with such a serious issue We’ve made mistakes as a nation and we’ll continue to make , while men and women are flesh and blood and real All we can do is try to avoid those mistakes in the future You know the fa doo, reasonable…and, yes, char Fun to be with

He realized it wasn’t a sudden desire for his co slowly She see wrong?" he asked her

"No, no, nothing I was thinking e House with you now"

He arched a brow "You’re afraid the intriguing Cherry Addison will step in--and give hosts of her ancestors are running around and our investigation would lare "You wanted me to talk You wanted my opinion on people there You want to know about the history of the house I’m too keyed up to sleep, so I’ll co believer in plunging right in"

He kept a s on with her The last thing she really wanted to do, he thought, was to go to the Tarleton-Dandridge House with hio hoht out and de about

But he hadn’t

She sounded like a liar to herself, and she was seriously worried about her sanity

What a choice!

Ho in the chair by her sofa Or the Tarleton-Dandridge House with Tyler Montague

Montague was alive Thatcould she pretend to be helping hih the criain just made her feel numb

They went into the e, which was convenient when they were doing tours People could disperse and look into the different roo to crowd into one area at the same ti?" she asked hiet first choice"

"That’s a rope bed The quilt on it is froht sheets and a blanket"

"What about the rest of your people?"

"They’ll co, as well"

"As well," Allison repeated "As well as ca equipment," she said scornfully

He stopped and turned to her "I’hable My unit has an extraordinary record of solving every case we’ve been brought in on"

"There really isn’t a case here--I mean, not worthy of your effort I can’t see how there could be" She thought she must have sounded desperate and tried to cal worth taking I keep thinking that Julian had to be playing a prank and it got the best of hiht he’d create aBeast Bradley and he’d scare me"

"That may be the case," Tyler saidLook, Allison, there’ve been a lot of deaths in this house"

She unfastened the red velvet cord that sectioned off the period sofa and sank into it "It’s an old house," she said stubbornly "People die"

"I’ about the natural deaths, and you know it"

"The unnatural ones, like the poor kid who electrocuted hio I neveroccasionally on ainst huot an electric shock That’s what happens" She winced, re They’d shut down the house then, too But only for a few days

"You were here?"