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All of a sudden Joel was in front of e He wore a shabby old bathrobe of so else His thin, pale hair stood up in s end of his corded sash trailed behind him like a limp tail

"Catherine," he said sharply, "do you realize what that girl is doing this very minute?"

"That girl? What girl?" I answered just as sharply

"You knoho I ht now, at this ht home with her"

"Entertaining? What do you mean?"

His smile came crooked and ot that boy in her bed"

"I don't believe you!"

"Then go and see for yourself!" he answered quickly, with so I say I was in the back hall and just happened to see this boy stealing down the halls, and I followed Before he reached Cindy's door, she had it open and elco him inside"

"I don't believe you," I said again, more weakly this time

"Are you afraid to check and find out Ithe truth? Would that convince you then that I am not the enemy you presume me to be?"

I didn't knohat to say or, think Cindy had promised to behave herself She was innocent, I knew she was She'd been so perfect, helping with Jory, resisting her natural tendency to argue with Bart Joel had to be lying Spinning about, I headed toward Cindy's room with Joel close at my heels

"You are lying about her, Joel, and I intend to prove that to you," I said as I almost ran

Just outside her door I paused and listened, hearing nothing at all I lifted ive the if you want to know the full truth Just throw open the door and step inside the room and see for yourself"

I paused, not wanting to even think he could possibly be right And I didn't want Joel to tell lared at him before I knocked sharply just once, waited a few seconds, then threw open Cindy's bedrooht flooding in through her s

Two totally naked bodies were entwined on Cindy's virgin bed!