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I tried to sound as if I knew more about the matter than Pastor Merrill. Merrill said. But Owen held his hands over his ears, too. He wore a surprisingly clean apron-and the safety goggles, loosely, around his neck.

It's easier f-f-f-for you, the Rev. Then the confusion would return to him, and he must have felt that he knew absolutely nothing. 'All those years,' I repeated. I knew every inch of my grandmother's house, and Noah and Simon knew almost everything about Hester's diabolical mind; but we couldn't find him.