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"I don't know," I said "What happened? I can't remember much"

"After your aunt turned me away I realized I had spotted your wheelchair in the hallway, behind her It didn't come to me immediately At first I actually believed what she had told one It seeined you wanted to just run away froht you wouldn't callon contacting your father in London and flying over there

"Driving hoht how could you have been taken out and put on a plane without your wheelchair?

"I turned around and went back to the house This tio to the front door I went to theof your roo "and I pushed it up and crawled in I could see your things were all still there in the drawers and closets, confir to me? I wondered, but most of all, where were you? What had she done?

"I went through the bottoht be locked in that office because I couldn't open the door I tapped on it and listened and then decided I had better check the rest of the house first It was puzzling that even she wasn't around downstairs,

"I tiptoed up the stairs and listened I thought I heard you groan and then I charged into that bedroom and found you on the bathroom floor and your aunt in the tub"

"What happened to her?" I asked

"She drowned, The police will be cohtto do with it Fro you into a bath and probably fell, hitting her head Is that right?"

"Yes I didn't want a bath I was afraid of her Austin She was so cruel toto me as if I was my mother"

"Is that why you have all those scrapes and bruises? She beat you or so?"

"No I tried to get away froet to the road so so to call you, but when I wheeled out I discovered she had gotten the Grounds people to reet down to the road anyway and lost control of ot all bruised She found ain I cliet to a phone there

"Then, it really got bad I've been very, very sick Austin

"I know They've got control of your fever and the infection"

"I think there's so on beside another infection"

"What?"