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 Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:15 pm
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HIS FATHER HAD BEEN A TRADER AND HAD TRAVELED OFTEN, LOOKING FOR THE CHANCE EXOTIC OR RARE ITEM.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:16 pm
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PEOPLE OF MEANS HAD OFTEN SOUGHT HIM OUT, INTERESTED IN WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE TURNED UP.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:18 pm
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IT SEEED TO BE THE LOOKING, MORE THAN THE FINDING, THAT HE HAD LIKED, AS HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN HAPPY TO PART WITH HIS LATEST DISCOVERY SO HE COULD BE OFF AFTER THE NEXT.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:18 pm
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FROM A YOUNG AGE, RICHARD HAD LIKED TO SPEND TIME WITH ZEDD WHILE HIS FATHER WAS AWAY.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:19 pm
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RICHARD'S BROTHER, MICHAEL, WAS A FEW YEARS OLDER, AND HAVING NO INTEREST IN THE WOODS, OR IN ZEDD'S RAMBLING LECTURES, PREFERRED TO SPEND HIS TIME WITH PEOPLE OF MEANS.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:20 pm
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ABOUT FIVE YEARS BEFORE, RICHARD HAD MOVED AWAY TO LIVE ON HIS OWN, BUT HE OFTEN STOPPED BY HIS FATHER'S HOME, UNLIKE MICHAEL, WHO WAS ALWAYS BUSY AND RARELY HAD TIME TO VISIT.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:21 pm
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WHENEVER HIS FATHER WENT AWAY, HE WOULD LEAVE RICHARD A MESSAGE IN THE BLUE JAR TELLING HIM THE LATEST NEWS, SOME GOSSIP, OR OF SOME SIGHT HE HAD SEEN.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:23 pm
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ON THE DAY THREE WEEKS BEFORE WHEN MICHAEL HAD COME TO TELL HIM THEIR FATHER HAD BEEN MURDERED, RICHARD HAD GONE TO HIS FATHER'S HOSUE, DESPITE HIS BROTHER'S INSISTENCE THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO GO, NOTHING HE COULD DO.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:23 pm
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RICHARD HAD LONG SINCE PASSED THE AGE WHEN HE DID AS HIS BROTHER SAID.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:26 pm
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WANTING TO SPARE HIM, THE PEOPLE THERE DIDN'T LET HIM SEE THE BODY.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:27 pm
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BUT STILL, HE SAW THE BIG, SICKENING SPLASHES AND PUDDLES OF BLOOD, BROWN AND DRY ACROSS THE PLANK FLOOR.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:32 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:33 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:34 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:35 pm
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