7 Vampires, Bones and Treacle Scones
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A quarter of an hour later, keeping her promise to take Boxer home, Liss turned off Owl Road into Hilary Snipes’s driveway. She put the car in park. Then she just stared. The decrepit old trailer was gone. In its place was a brand new double-wide fancy enough to be called a modular home.
“Nice,” Liss murmured.
“We think so.” Boxer grinned at her, unrepentant, and slid out of the car. With a wave, he disappeared inside.
Liss was shaking her head as she drove away. When the Moosetookalook grapevine got wind of this, everyone would be speculating about where Hilary had gotten the money to upgrade. Aunt Margaret might have given Hilary and Boxer everything that had been in Ned’s bank account. She certainly hadn’t wanted it for herself. But the purchase price must have been much more than that . . . just about what was supposed to be in the cache of cash allegedly stashed in a certain hidey-hole next to the fireplace in the parlor of the Chadwick mansion.
It didn’t really matter where the money had come from, Liss decided. After all they had been through, Boxer and his mother deserved a break.
She smiled to herself all the rest of the way home. Discovering the origin of their windfall was one mystery she was happy to leave unsolved.
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