Chilling by Chilling

Author:Chilling
Language: rus
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^ to r- m long as you ran faster and stretched out your arms farther. He said that we’re boats against the tide.”

H, E, W, A, S, D, E, A, D.

“You really think so?”

Yes. Then Yes. Then Yes again.

He dosed his eyes, and although Elizabeth waited and waited, he didn’t open them again. He must be exhausted.

Elizabeth stayed beside him for a while, and then kissed him and stood up. Outside in the garden, under the tarnished tureen-lid of the sky, the Peggy-girl was standing beside the tennis court, looking up at her.

Elizabeth made no attempt to go closer to the window, and after a while the Peggy-girl glided away into the bracken.

Elizabeth was still staring out of the window when Lenny knocked softly on the door.

“Are you okay?’ he asked her. “s the old man?”

“I don’t think either of us are very well,’ she replied, without turning around.

“I’m sorry.’ He came up to her and laid his hand on her shoulder. She reached up and patted it.

“Do you believe that it’s possible for imaginary people to come to life?’ she asked him.

“When you say “imaginary people” ... ?”

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“I mean characters out of stories.”

Lenny shrugged. ‘ don’t see how that could be.”

“Father seems to believe it. He thinks that the little Peggy girl is Gerda out of The Snow Queen. He seems to think that dead people can come alive again, as characters out of books.”

“Oh, come on now, Lizzie, he’s rambling. He was always interested in ghosts and haunted houses and witch trials, wasn’t he? He’s rambling; it’s gone to his head.”

“I guess so. But what about the snowstorm? What about the photograph album? What about the Reverend Bracewaite and poor Clan Philips?”

“Maybe that newspaper reporter was right. Maybe you have some sort of unusual talent for attracting blizzards.”

“Oh, that was nonsense! And besides, I wasn’t there when the Reverend Bracewaite was frozen.”

Lenny pinched the bridge of his nose. ‘ don’t know, Lizzie, I’ve been turning it over an dover in my mind, trying to explain it. I think there is something here, but I think it’s more than likely to be Peggy’s aura. Do you know what I mean? Because Peggy was so young and so lively, she left something of herself in the house, and that’s what you and I have been experiencing.

You’re her sister, so you’re much more sensitive to it than I am. You may even be acting like a receiver

... you know, sort of a human television, picking up the thoughts and the feelings that Peggy left behind.

Maybe I’m a little bit sensitive, too.

Look at what happened to me on Guadalcanal.”

Elizabeth turned to look at him. He shrugged again and pulled a face. ‘ read about it in Reader’s Digest, Loved Ones Who Speak From Beyond.

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