no setting by no setting

Author:no setting [no setting]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: no setting
Published: 2011-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

House of Many Shadows 171

"You'll see me now. What's the matter? You can't run out like that; you scared hell out of me."

Another long pause followed. Finally Meg heard the bedsprings creak and the crackle of paper as Andy stamped through the scraps on the floor. He had finished stripping the paper but had not yet removed the debris.

When he opened the door he stared pallidly at Meg.

"Sorry. Sorry, sorry, I'm getting sick and tired of apologizing all the time. It was a shock, that's all."

"What was a shock?" Meg almost screamed the words; if Andy had been deliberately trying to frighten her he could not have chosen a better method than the vague hints.

"Finding out what happened to the Hubers. There we were, speculating and planning com- plicated research problems; and the answer was right there all along, on the library shelves."

Meg began to understand. Cold spread from the back of her neck through her body.

"The book you were reading. The historic American murders?"

Somberly Andy nodded. "All three of them. The old man, the girl, and the servant. Beaten to death, on a night in October 1740. Two hundred­ odd years ago tonight."

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