"Annie laughed cheerily "Then I got stuck in a
snowbank - this was around midnight - but a sanding-crew from the Eustice
Public Works Department came along and helped me out. That is crazy, he told
himself, and then he heard thought he did - a little rustling sound, the sound
of a womans starched skirt, perhaps, brushing lightly against the
wall. Geoffrey stood on the threshold of the housekeepers cottage in an odd
slanting posture, as if his spine had been warped out of shape by long years
carrying a peddlers sack. Paul knew that even an exhaustive analysis would
turn up precious few traces of blood - his car had spent most of the spring
with snowmelt running through it at flood-speed.
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