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“Are you telling me you don’t remember those suether”

“Other than the picture I just saw, can’t say it’s ringing a bell Why’d we stop?”

“Life, your father’s job And after the terrible accident—the fire—”

“What fire?”

“At Payton Manor If I recall, it had so, which hadn’t been converted to electricity yet There was an explosion, and the entire east ent up in flaet the children out, but his own son died froave hi after that And Oliver’s parents were killed just a few years later The fah “Time and distanceyou kno it is We lost touch”

“I saw a photo of you and Albert’s brother sitting in the Gray Ghost”

“Is that the old Rolls-Royce? I loved that car!”

“The sa about it?”

“Any memories I have are from decades-old photos stuffed in some box somewhere”

Sam eyed the photo in the album “Albert toldfor so in that car”

She laughed “Heavens, but I’d forgotten all about that Albert’s dad was so mad when he’d discovered us in the barn And when he learned we’d found the car, I thought he was going to die of a heart attack He said the car was cursed and ordered us not to tell anyone about it We were kids, playing treasure hunters No doubt where you got your fascination for treasure hunting from”

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“Back to this curse Did he say why?”

Libby laughed again “To keep us out of the barn If I’ the war You are helping them, I hope?”

“I’ment,” he said