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Show - 164 - "Don't try to get out of it, Pen. You're not going anywhere tonight, even If I have to call Maddie and Tom. What you are contemplating is too dangerous. Believe me, don't try to take things into your hands. If something should happen to you, Mama and Papa would never forgive themselves for leaving us, not to mention Tom and Maddie. Think of all of them!" While Vicky was speaking, Penny had been weighing in her mind, whether she should tell her sister what was going on. She had no alternative. Vicky was determined that she was not going to leave the house and would alert Tom and Maddie. She must get Vicky on her side.Whatever Chang Lin had planned tonight would be lost if she didn't show up at the bridge. Her instincts again told her that this was the crucial night. She must persuade Vicky and take her along and pray that he wouldn't be angry with her. "All right," said Penny. "If you won't let me go alone you'll have to come with me." "Me, You're insane!" burst out Vicky. "Just because you've lost your mind doesn't mean I have." She shivered and pulled the comforter up around her chin.. Penny looked at the portrait of Claudine and the expression in its eyes seemed to plead with her. "Remember your promise, Madmoi-selle. Please do not forsake me now at the twelfth hour!" "Look, Vicky," said Penny. "We have now reached the time where we'll be getting the answers to many of bur questions about Claudine. We to have make up our minds,once and for all,that it must be done. I, for one, can't continue to live with the ghost of Gaven House constantly haunting me. If we don't help her, none of us will ever rest. "But why us?" muttered Vicky. "Why can't she go somewhere else and haunt?" |