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Maybe he was right Maybe if I read this book to the very end I'd end up smarter than Jory, and the whole world would look up to me

I s the journal of Malcolm close to my heart Here I had the tool to use to make me the richest man in the world-- just like Malcolm Neal Foxworth, who used to live in a faraway place called Foxworth Hall

I had two friends now My lady grandmother in black and John Amos, who talked to ers caivin me more than my parents

Sugar and Spice

Mom had purchased a ballet school that still bore the nainal owner She adopted that name, Marie DuBois School of Ballet, and led her students to think she was Marie DuBois She explained tothe naree

Her school was located on the top floor of a two-story building in San Rafael, not far froether or spent the night in San Francisco so they could see a ballet or go to movies and not have to drive back and forth Emma ith us, so we didn't really mind too much, except solowing It made me think eren't as important to them as we liked to believe

One night when I was restless and couldn't sleep, I silently stole out of ht snack onelse The secondroom I could hear the sound of , and they seldom even spoke crossly to one another

I didn't knohat to do, to stay or to return to my room Then I remembered that scene in the attic, and for my protection and Bart's, too, I felt I had to knohat this was all about

Mom still wore the pretty blue dress she'd worn out to dinner with Dad "I don't knohy you keep objecting!" she stor Dad furious looks "You knoell as I do that Nicole isn't going to get well And if ait until she's buried, then the state will have custody of Cindy, and we'll have a devil of a ti her away from them! Let's move now Possession is ninetenths of the law, and that landlady doesn't want to be bothered any longer Chris, please make up your mind!"

"No," he said coldly "We have two children and that's enough There are other young couples ill be delighted to adopt Cindy Couples who don't have as ency starts to investigate"

Mo! If we have Cindy before Nicole dies, the agency won't have any reason to investigate I'll go tonight and tell Nicole what I plan I'al papers are needed"

"Catherine," saidthe way you want it Nicole may very well recover in a feeeks, and even if she is permanently crippled, she'll still want her child"

"But what kind of mother will she make?" "That's not for us to decide"

"She can't recover! You know it, and I know

it --and what's one to the hospital and talked to Nicole, and she wants ned the papers I took, and I had Sihtry with --so what can you do now to stop me?"