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a heard Allie"s gasp

d the note from

ionally wrong."

t her sister"s face. "

d." She

red so low Hella coul

or as long as I can

"t even sug

softly. "I couldn"t l

the floorboards cut o

lence filled the

moment on, we must

it the killer. Focu

ou." Hella cupped her sister

"t argue,

hand, Hella steppe

lie followed her sis

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dy. Heard nobody. H

t. Seeing nobody,

e sleeping town. Al

e tiny town. Hella

ut she felt sure tha

hy would anybody wan

ake any sense. The

committed in the sam

clusion that her par

ad lived in the city,

they moved, they had

ren"t particularly fo

him dead. Mr. Harbo

ost everybody in the

they be passing out

to Hella. The note h

u emotionally, before

you." Hella didn"t

fully understood the la

o get out of town, an

s they made their wa

s nor help the distr

her mind. Hella di

orried Allie more the

r life, Hella had bee

g" kind. Nothing got

her down, she never

ent. There was no "S

e was nothing. No

forting hugs, or gay

ence. The thought of H

her father"s death.

she say? How could

s worried? Allie la

glanced at her sister

oaming the wildernes

from oppression."

d then reached out an

Hella. Everything wi

at happens we alway

Allie"s hand a squee

about the journey. Th

the note still clutc

e it." All