“Hello?”
she
said
nervously.
high
“Mrs.
was
Janet
carefully kitchen.
quiet
red gingham scarf had been
padded
into “Hello?”
tied
was
scuffling
a
sound
at
Janet
“Jeepers!”
sink
worry,
sounds
like
they
have
a
mouse
first my,
it
with
the
going
you
to
get
the
gutsy she
was
known for among the other
The sound ceased when reached
for
amateur
the
cabinet.
sleuths
Suddenly,
open the door and gasped
her.
Janet
at what
distracted
she found.
girl under the sink, she young
girl,
hadn’t
naked but for white, knee-
122.
had by
heard
the house.
were
and
Hamilton
pale
pulled
Laura
Mr.
A
She
at
Pinecrest High.
handle of the
“Don’t
determination
house.”
Janet
I’m
Janet
you out of here,” she said
might
in
Mmn.
Mmrm,” she said mutedly.
exclaimed.
“Oh
squinting,
“Mmmmmfff.
from the cabinet under the
was,
with
tear-filled hazel eyes.
coming
thought
mouth,
she
low
Janet’s
her
gagging her. She looked up
stock- still, listening. There
around
the
repeated and then remained
and
was
lashed to a copper pipe. A
house
again.
socks,
bound with heavy rope and
Hamilton?” The
cotton
beside
been the
them
so
naked
enter