Girl in the Shadows (Shadows 2)

"Absolutely not, Maybe we'll take her to a

movie or something tonight."

"A movie? How do you expect her to enjoy a

movie if she can't hear a word?"

"People used to go to silent movies. Ma,"

Rhona said. "You probably did," she added, and they

both laughed.

"Silent movies were made differently." I

offered from the doorway of the living room. "They

had written words and the actors performed

differently."

"Who said that?" she cried, pretending it was a

voice from out of the blue. She turned and looked at

inc. "Oh, you're still here?" She turned her back on me

and then marched to the front door. "C'mon. Skeeter,

we have work to do," she called back to him. He smiled licentiously at me and moved his tongue over his lower lip. Then he laughed and joined her at the door. They both laughed at something he whispered and then they walked out. I looked back at Echo. She hadn't realized they had come down and I

wasn't about to tell her.

A short while after they had left. Trevor came

in to see how things were and Mrs. Westington gave

him an earful about the night before. He listened,

shook his head sympathetically, and urged her not to

let herself get too upset. She told him all about their

request for money and why.

"I got a very bad feeling about those two," he

told me when Mrs. Westington went upstairs. "I don't

think they're here for the real estate business prospects

they claim. Before they left yesterday, two men drove

up and spoke with that Skeeter fellow, and both

looked like they had been dragged out of a swamp.

My guess is they need money, but not to buy old