The Ghost Downstairs by Ringle Molly

Author:Ringle, Molly [Ringle, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2009-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

_e_ __e___ __e. a____e_ _e__ ____ _a_ _e_e.

i __i__ e_e____E’s s_a__i__ __ _e_ __a_ __e _a_e_s

_a_e _ee_ _a__i__ seas__a_ a__e__I_e _is___e_.

Still not what you would call legible. She stuffed the papers into a drawer and went down to eat. At dinner, while listening to the others talk about Jackie Clairmont’s accident, Lina kept an eye on Ren, the walking enigma. Was he a criminal who had done horrible things? Was he a victim of circumstance, wrongly accused? Was he hiding here for his own safety? Was he merely a kid who enjoyed writing in code and lying? And what the hell was his actual age, anyway?

He slipped her a glance from two tables away as he set down a basket of bread. Though the glance lasted less than a second, she felt a shock through all her limbs. She gulped some water and stared at the crochet-work of the tablecloth. She hoped he hadn’t noticed the missing volume, hoped his glance hadn’t carried suspicion or accusation. Now it was she who was hiding things from him. Did this make them even?

After dinner, Lina sat down with a bag of Valentine candies and sharpened the pencil again. She took a yellow heart from the bag and read the message on it: U R SWEET.

HOW OLD R U?, she thought, smiling, and popped it into her mouth. She spread her makeshift alphabet legend beside the photocopy, and gazed at Ren’s handwriting again, waiting for inspiration to strike.

That word ctpt, for which she had replaced E for T and gotten _E_E, snagged her eye. Words ending in that pattern often had an R between the E’s—here, were, mere. Worth a try. On her alphabet legend, she penciled in P beside R, and tried it out in the first paragraph.

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