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Cheney said slowly, "I don’t understand, Julia Didn’t August Ransom claiive him their names?"

"I can’t say, since his consultations were always private, and he never spoke to me about them, or to anyone else"

"But you believe he spoke to the dead? Co left behind?"

"He told me he’d spoken to Lincoln, and I believed him"

She sounded so certain, so settled in her belief He eyed her He didn’t knohat to think He decided to leave what she’d said alone She’d evidently bought into everything her husband had told her He wasn’t going to make her defend hiain He finally saw the exit sign to Liverot about five minutes for you to tellabout Kathryn being in love with August She’s too--together, I guess is the right word, too focused on what she is, to love someone like that And besides, if she wanted him, ould she kill him? Why not me? That doesn’t make any sense"

"Maybe when she approached hied, et even"

"She always has lovely fingernails I can’t see her doing anything to endanger the him Okay, that was a bit snippy, but the fact rearrote anyone"

"Okay, you’re probably right So she could have hired so the picture here that you siht even like her"

"I suppose I do like her, and you’re right, I never saw her as a threat of any kind August loved ave me cause to doubt it"

Cheney chewed that over for a moust was?"

"August used to say that ht they were psychic simply overfloith intuition With those people he really believed did have psychic gifts, he said he pictured two big beakers--one to measure their actual psychic ability, the other to ain He saw their beakers filled accordingly when he made a decision about them He said Kathryn’s psychic beaker was more than half full, but her ambition beaker flowed nearly to the top So she stepped over the line sometimes But he said she was so s people, she couldwith their dead Saint Bernard"

When Cheney pulled onto Raleigh Drive, a street that speared up a barren hill where the houses were large and set wide apart, he paused aaround "The psychic ood to Ms Golden"

"She’s practically a regular on daytime TV, you know, some of the talk shows She even had her own show for a couple of years She’s written a couple of books and both did fairly well, as Bevlin told you I read The Soul’s Search It was actually good The fact is, Cheney, though I’ve never disliked her, I have gotten the iust ust was taken in, dazzled by my youth and beauty"

"Do I hear a whiff of sarcasive h cheekbones, the bruise fading, her creahtly tilted at the corners, herof pale peach lipstick He wondered if Kathryn Golden had a point

Julia was saying, "I don’t know of any scandals in her past, nothing like that She’s always been a little aloof to h not, I don’t think, in the physical sense She admired him as much as everyone did"

She added as they pulled into the driveway, "I don’t like it that we didn’t call her, to tell her ere coh," Cheney said as they walked up the flagstone path to the front door There were flowers everywhere, in beds lining the walk, in flower boxes, and hanging in baskets from thick black chains, in wild spills and vibrant colors, scenting the dry air with jas her off guard It’s an old trick Hey, the door’s open, just like Bevlin’s What’s with psychics?"