Sleep No More by Sleep No More

Author:Sleep No More [More, Sleep No]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-21T01:54:52+00:00

"Nothing's sure yet. I don't know what they have. Do you have any idea what it could be?"

Waters thought of the week at Bienville, then the nights at the Eola. "I don't know. Maybe someone saw us, but we didn't see them?"

"That may be it."

"I've always been worried about Eve's house. She's bound to have had stuff about me in there."

"Well, until we know something for sure, you should sit tight and stay calm. Go back over everything and try to anticipate the situation."

Waters's face suddenly felt cold.

"What is it, John?"

"I just talked to Cole, like you said to. Confronted him."

"And?"

"He told me he knew I was with Eve at the Eola."

Penn's eyes narrowed to slits. "How could he know that?"

"He was coy about it. Said he followed me for a few days. But I think that was bullshit. I can't see him doing that."

"No. If he knows, it's because Eve told him you would be there." Penn tapped the steering wheel. "What if she called him to come up after you passed out, thinking he was going to do something to you? When in reality he was going to kill her all along, and frame you."

Waters shook his head. "Cole couldn't do that."

"Are you so sure? What did he say about selling the pumping unit?"

"He admitted it. He's up to his eyeballs in debt. To bookies, Vegas casinos, everybody."

Penn turned up his palms, as if this proved his case.

"Did you find out anything about Mallory's diaries?" Waters asked, wanting to change the subject.

"As a matter of fact, I did. I talked to Mrs. Candler for quite a while. I told her I was thinking of doing a nonfiction book about Natchez, and naturally I'd want to include a chapter on our second Miss Mississippi. I got a good bit of information out of her before she got suspicious."

"Such as?"

"About a year ago—sometime around her husband's death—some of Mallory's things disappeared from their house."

Waters felt a strange premonition, but of what, he wasn't sure. "Like what?"

"Mallory's diaries, for one thing."

"You're joking."

"No. Also some jewelry, all Mallory's. And some personal things of Mallory's that wouldn't mean anything to anyone but her."

"What do you think?"

"That tells us that someone has been planning this scam on you for over a year. They broke into the Candler house and took personal things that would help authenticate Eve's story."

"How could they take things that no one would know were important but Mallory?"

"John, they were taken from her room. Obviously she had saved them for some sentimental reason. My guess is that if you hadn't swallowed Eve's story so quickly, those little items would have started making appearances in your life. On Eve's arm, or in her purse, maybe."

Waters felt a strange lightness in his limbs. He leaned back in the seat, unable to believe what he was hearing.

"I've been thinking about what you told me about Mallory cutting herself," Penn said. "You said you didn't believe her when she told you that her father had sexually abused her.

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