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Page 21 “Why are you here? What do you want?” you blurt out. “Don’t not be afraid,” the ghost replies. “You will come to no harm. But you should not be surprised to be haunted by me; I hired you to save my life, and yet I was murdered that very night.” “I wish I could have saved you, but at least I found out who murdered you.” “Yes,” the ghost acknowledges, ‘but it is your fate to be haunted by me.” “Shouldn’t you be haunting your old house?” you ask. “I have spent many hours there,” says Thrombey. “I do not like to see my house possessed by an evil man.” “Then why don’t you do something about it?” you demand. “It is the way of ghost not to punish evil people, but to let them bring about their own downfall. That gives people like you a chance to be a good force in the world.” “But I’m no match for Grimstone and his thugs,” you say,” Unless…Would you help?” “If you are brave enough to try, then your courage should be rewarded.” With these words, the ghost vanishes. Turn to page 17