The Changeling Page #3

It's happened before here.

I'm not the first.

I went over the files

very carefully...

all the way back to 1920.

- Nothing out of the ordinary.

- Miss Huxley.

Minnie's a highly eccentric

old woman, but she'd never-

She said the house didn't want people.

She's mistaken.

Whatever it is is trying

desperately to communicate.

The bangings, the water taps,

the broken window panes.

All the glass fell outward.

It had to be done from the inside.

Everything that's happened

has been designed...

to get me into that attic room.

I want to see it.

Look at that book

on the desk there.

"C.S.B. January 4, 1909."

It's a little child's writing.

Who could've lived here then?

That's where I found the music box,

on the mantle.

Look at this wheelchair.

Oh, my God.

It's so small.

What was this room?

Former residents:

William Sarachino and family. Architect.

Bought the place in 1965.

Sold it in 1967.

Purchased from the Society

for Historical Preservation...

November, 1967, through a generous

grant from the Carmichael Foundation.

- That's the senator?

- Yeah.

- Great philanthropist.

- Where is the rest of this file?

Previous occupants-

No previous occupants listed.

There's nothing here before 1920.

Minnie, we're looking for

the Chessman house file, pre-1920.

- Do you know where it is?

- What is it you want to know?

We're trying to find out

who lived in the house in 1909.

A man named Barnard.

A doctor.

- Did he have any children?

- I believe a son and a daughter.

There was some kind

of family tragedy, I think.

He sold the house in 1909.

Fine.

It's all ready to go.

The scanner's on the right.

Thank you so much.

Let's have a look here.

February 9.

These are want ads.

Financial page.

Real estate.

More want ads.

Wait, wait, wait.

"Cora Barnard, seven-year-old daughter

of Dr. Walter Barnard...

prominent Seattle physician,

was struck and seriously injured...

when she ran in front

of a passing coal cart...

outside her Chessman Park home

yesterday.

She was hastened to

St. Margaret's Hospital...

where her condition remains grave."

- So forth and so on.

- Cora Barnard.

C.S.B.

There.

"Cora Barnard, daughter of-

succumbed in

St. Margaret's Hospital...

to injuries sustained in

a February 15 accident.

She is mourned by her parents.

Miss Barnard will be interred

in the family plot...

in the Brookfield Cemetery."

There's the doctor...

and his wife.

There's the brother, Lloyd.

This little girl, Cora...

was killed in the street.

It was an accident,

almost the same as Kathy.

What is it

in that house, Claire?

What is it doing?

Why is it trying to reach me?

- John-

- Is it because of my daughter?

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