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Confusion

"Ah, Louis, forgive lected hallway I shuddered "I came here because I was so concernedabout you "

"No need," he said considerately "It was just a little pilgrie I had to make "

I touched his face with ers; so warm from the kill

"She's not here, Louis," I said "It was soined "

"Yes, so it seems," he said

"We live forever; but they don't come back "

He studiedmoment; then he nodded "Come on," he said

We walked down the long hallway together; no, I did not like it; I did not want to be here It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory; that had been my room in there; my room

He was struggling with the back door, trying to o out on the porch and then I gave it the shove it needed Locked up tight

So sad to see the overgrown courtyard; the fountain ruined; the old brick kitchen cruain

"I'll fix it all for you if you want," I told him "You know, make it like it was before "

"Not important now," he said "Will you come with me, ith me a little?"

We went down the covered carriageway together, water rushing through the little gutter I glanced back once Saw her standing there in her white dress with the blue sash Only she wasn't looking at ht, wrapped in the sheet that Louis thrust into the carriage; she was taking my remains away to bury me; yet there she stood, and our eyes met

I felt hier," he said