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Winterhouse ben guterson5/21/2023 None of your nonsense!Įlizabeth studied the train ticket: 6:20 was in three hours-the first three hours of her twenty-four days of Christmas vacation. You’ll get another ticket to come back after the new year. Here’s three dollars in case you need anything on the way. Get on the bus that goes to the Winterhouse Hotel-they will be expecting you. Catch that train, and when you get off in the morning at Sternhaven, there will be a ticket waiting for you at the bus station. There is a ticket for the 6:20 train north in this envelope. We informed you several times we would be going on a three-week getaway and you would not be staying alone while we are gone, so you won’t be surprised to find this letter. She already had a pretty good idea of what the note inside the envelope would say as she plucked it from the door and then opened it: The porch steps-which her uncle Burlap never kept clean-were slick with snow and ice, and so Elizabeth stepped up carefully, set down her school backpack, and slid her hood from her head with a wet shake. When Elizabeth Somers tugged open the gate to her aunt and uncle’s yard and saw an envelope duct-taped to the front door of the shabby house she shared with them, she knew it was bad news.
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