A Case of Grave Danger - Sophie Cleverly The Violet Veil Mysteries

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walking in silence under the black sky. The ghosts’ voices were mere tingling whispers now – I fancied they were talking amongst themselves, not to me, about the evening’s excitement. The barrier between living and dead was a hard one to cross, like shouting underwater.

      As the clouds began to melt away, I glimpsed stars beginning to twinkle. ‘Not long now,’ I kept saying. ‘Nearly there.’ Eventually it was true, and we were outside the back door.

      It was wide open – Father must have run through the house.

      The boy – Oliver – stopped and leaned against the wall, his breathing still rapid. One of his hands clutched his stomach, the other his head. I quickly reached inside the door and stretched to hang up the lantern on the hook, so that I had both hands free.

      ‘Please … Master Oliver,’ I said. ‘You’ve got to get inside.’

      He looked at me, and I was suddenly struck by his eyes, which were – for all their sunkenness – a deep, dark brown like a warm cup of cocoa. So different from my own, which were storm grey.

      ‘I …’ he paused. ‘I don’t want to tread mud inside your house, miss.’

      And then he fainted.

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