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Sean rested a hand on his shoulder "We can’t protect everyone who ever walked into the Tarleton-Dandridge House," he said

Tyler couldn’t shake his anger with himself "I should have known Hell, soh anxiety to head out He said no one knehere he was going except for his daughter, but…this person knows the area, Sean This is so that’s been written about the house The board and the other guides were aware that Allison orking on a paper--and that she’d studied what Standish wrote"

"Tyler, quit beating yourself up We couldn’t have known that Standish would be in danger And it looks like you got to him in time," Sean told him

"Barely, and I don’t know if he’llman"

"He’ll make it," Sean said "I can hear the sirens now"

Allison stepped aside when the EMTs arrived with their s and stretcher She looked on as they set up an IV and took Standish’s vital signs

"CPR?" one of the youngat first"

"Has he spoken?"

"Briefly"

The EMTs didn’t care about voices or ghosts in the woods; their only concern was for the injured man

"He was in the water?"

"Yes Facedown We don’t kno he got there, if he was injured, tripped--pushed We don’t know," Allison said

She watched, stricken, while the tealanced up at her and s to be okay Thank God you ca when you did"

She smiled back weakly

It was a shaly put hier

Sean and Tyler returned frorim, as Standish was placed on a stretcher It was decided that Kelsey and Sean would go to the hospital and guard Martin Standish there Logan seemed to think it was important that Allison be at the house

She and Tyler waited, standing by the beautiful little bubbling stream, as the EMTs

Tyler shook his head "No I was the fool," he said harshly "I should’ve had so hi article"

Allison was afraid that he felt his interest in her otten it into my head to publish another paper on the house, maybe none of this would have happened"

"Allison, it’s no one else’s fault when someone commits murder It’s the work of the bastard who believes his life or agenda is greater than the lives of anyone else And I don’t think the killing started with your paper I think it started before Obviously, no one living noas responsible for the death of a Civil War soldier or the suicide of a distraught young woo--but as to the kid as electrocuted, and the guide who had a heart attack in Angus’s study…I think weat the same perpetrator" He turned away suddenly, and she realized he’d heard movement from the trees

"Crireet the tea the situation succinctly, including a chronicle of the actions they’d taken since they’d come

Allison walked closer to the strealitter As the water skipped over pebbles and rocks, it reflected rays of sunshine, which shone like scattered diaht her eye and she cried out

Tyler spun around, his face anxious

"I see Standish’s rifle," she said "There--it looks as if he threw it As if he was hit from behind, and then threw it"

Tyler and the crew of techs walked over to her

"Good eye," one of the techs said

He sloshed through the strealanced at Tyler "We’ll coet back to you with anything we have, down to gum wrappers if there are any"

Tyler thanked hih the woods to his car, parked in front of the cabin "Let’s get back to Philly," he said

She was hesitant as they drove "Tyler, o away People around me, even people I hardly know, seem to wind up dead or in the hospital"