02-A Spirited Tail by Leighann Dobbs

Author:Leighann Dobbs
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I was still thinking about Gladys’s odd behavior as I bent down to put the key in the lock of my bookstore. A swirl of snowy white and pale green material caught my eye, and I looked up in time to see the gauzy skirts of two dresses disappearing around the corner to the alley—Felicity and Claire.

"That’s it, I've had enough!" I ran to the mouth of the alley to tell them off, but the alley was empty. They must have run the length of the alley and were already out onto the other street. If it had just been Felicity, I might have considered that she'd made the quick getaway by flying off on her broomstick, but my jury was still out on Claire.

"I know you guys are following me and I want you to stop now!" I yelled into the empty alley, then trudged back to open my shop.

Pandora and Ranger eyed me lazily as I unlocked the bookstore and opened for the afternoon's business.

"I'm glad Steve got arrested, but that means I won't be able to go to Van Dorn's to talk to Charles," I said out loud. "And it makes me wonder what will happen to the house now."

"Mew." Pandora stretched in her cat bed, her back humped like a horseshoe.

"Maybe I don't need to find Charles' killer at all. I mean, he hasn’t bothered me in a few days and I don't think he'd venture from the mansion."

Pandora leapt onto the counter, staring at me with her greenish-gold eyes as if she was hanging on my every word.

"And really, who cares about a fifty-year-old murder, anyway? The important thing is that I helped find Bruce Norton's killer."

"Meow!" Pandora shot her paw out, knocking several pens to the floor.

"Okay, well, if you were giving me hints about the pen—which I'm not convinced you were—you can stop now because we caught the guy."

She swatted more pens to the floor.

"Sure, I get it. You want me to keep investigating Charles' murder." I bent down and picked up the pens. "I do have to admit, I am curious as to who did it. My money is on Gladys."

"Meow!" Pandora head butted my chin.

"You, too? But what I really want to know is what is in that journal everyone seems to be looking for."

"Brrill." Pandora made a vibrating meowing noise.

"But I guess that will probably stay locked away at the Van Dorn Mansion for another fifty years. If only Charles was here so I could ask him."

"You rang?"

The voice startled me and I dropped the pens, whirling around to see none other than Charles Van Dorn's ghost proving that he did, in fact, leave the mansion, which probably didn't bode well for me.

"So there you are. Where were you when I had questions?" I bent to retrieve the pens again.

"Sorry, I was off in the nethers. But don't you worry. I'm going to be close by your side from now on … at least until you solve my murder. I have a very good reason now to pass to the other side.

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