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He didn’t believe in ghosts Didn’thad scared her badly

He’d be da on, or as causing it The seance could be chalked up to childish antics As to the rest…

Pranks as well Had to be Or the ihosts to exist so badly that they could create the bride But Clara? She was as down to earth as could be

Why worry about it so much? He taunted hihosts, in anything that gave credence to a life after death Let Melody House be haunted

Ah, but there was the rub Clara had either slammed herself into a door, or been hurt somehow But he still had to question how the hell soh the Lee Roo

He’d spent plenty of time in the Lee Room himself Once, when Lavinia had been in love with the place She considered the roo, for reasons he’d never really fathomed Clint, he knew, had taken a number of wo intimate with a woman when there was an element of fear The point was, not one of the in the least a at his desk at the station, staring down at a forave himself a mental shake and concentrated The true reason police forces lost so ood cops Paperwork

He forced himself to finish up, then called out to his secretary that he was calling it quits It ell after six and he’d been in for almost twelve hours

He felt a sudden uneasiness

It was too long to have been gone froht be a s public libraries Darcy had ever seen

Mrs O’Hara, tiny as a wren, but sprightly and quick with beautiful dark brown eyes peeping out from behind her bifocals, evidently loved books, and apparently felt a need to create coht be enjoyed Beautiful plants and flowers adorned the numerous tables, and she proudly told Darcy that she’d found the inviting, overstuffed chairs set about the library at various yard sales throughout the county The library was entirely user-friendly, with signs to direct youngsters to their section, and adults to where they wanted to go as well "A library should be educational, of course," she told Darcy cheerfully "But the point is that reading should always be a pleasure, and when one learns to read and love it, all kinds of knowledge just becoo on, but then, I do love books!" She wasn’t obtrusive, however, and quickly brought Darcy to the section on local history

Luckily,events around them In the 1870s, a woman named Murial Moore had written about the sisters Darcy and Matt had discussed on her first day at Melody House The family had been the Claytons, and their home had been located just outside of town A Barry Brewster had been engaged first to marry Ophelia, the oldest of the brood, but had fallen in love with young Amy, the baby of the family Amy had last been seen with her sister Ophelia as they walked through the east forest, ostensibly to visit neighbors on the far side Aain alive Barry had returned, and on the day that thethrough the woods with his dog, Barry had hanged hione insane, but lived out her life to the ripe old age of eighty-eight, prisoner of her family, kept in the barn The barn, and fa, young lady?"

Darcy started and looked up Mrs O’Hara was standing by her side "I was about to make a cup of tea Would you like some?"

This was definitely a different kind of library

Darcy sotten very deep into the history of the Stone fa water between legends, truth, and experience as it was And she was anxious to get back to the forest

"I’ll take a rain check on the tea, Mrs O’Hara, if I may," Darcy told her "I’ll be back to to the librarian Such an old volume wasn’t allowed out of the library

Mrs O’Hara assured her she was quite welcoh soht be i the history of Melody House "I warn you--any difficulty on research regarding Melody House and the area is not because there hasn’t been a lot written There are many, many books on the subject"

"Thanks so much for your help"

"Absolutely I’m quite convinced myself that the area is haunted In fact, I have a friend you ht want to talk to Her naht after Matt’s grandfather died And she quit in one day She was convinced that she was grabbed and rousted about and nearly killed when she was thron a stairway"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>