The Watcher in the Woods Page #3

A girl... about my age...

with long blonde hair.

And she was blindfolded.

- You saw her?

- I'm not sure.

Could you...

Could you tell me what happened?

How she disappeared?

My husband was killed in the war.

And Karen was everything to me.

She was soon to be 17,

and I stayed up late... finishing her present.

Karen wasn't in her room.

She was always so considerate,

I couldn't believe

she'd gone off without telling me.

Then I remembered there was an eclipse.

She might have gone to watch it at the pond.

Karen?

Karen, where are you?

Mary! John!

Tom? Tom Colley!

Karen?

Karen!

Karen!

They searched the ruins...

but there was no sign of Karen.

No sign at all.

Didn't the other kids

know what happened to her?

Why was she blindfolded?

They said it was part of a game.

They used to meet in the chapel.

Sometimes there seems to be

something out there.

Sometimes... I hear someone

whispering in the wind.

Mrs Aylwood, what do you think

happened to Karen?

I think she's still out there.

- What nonsense.

- I told you there was a ghost.

As long as it keeps out of the house,

I can live with it.

For heaven's sake! I knew Mrs Aylwood

was strange, but this is ridiculous.

I did see something in the mist at the pond.

That's why I fell in.

We'll always be grateful

to her for saving you,

but I won't have her filling your head

with these far-fetched fantasies.

Excuse me.

- I'll catch you later. I want to watch Mike.

- OK.

She seems less moody today.

This is what she needs. It'll do her good.

Knight on shining motorcycle.

- How many sandwiches do we have?

- Four for me and one for you!

Come on!

Come on, Mike!

- Hi, guys!

- Hi.

Grab a sandwich

before your sister eats them all.

Ellie, let's get closer.

Well, be careful now.

- There he is!

- There's Mike!

Jan! Come quick!

What is it?

Quickly!

Jan, quickly!

Wow! Did you see that?

- What did you want?

- I didn't want you. Nerak did.

- It's lucky you moved off that rock.

- It wasn't luck.

- What do you mean?

- It's nothing. Forget it.

- It's just been a crazy kind of week all round.

- Do you want to talk about it?

Mrs Aylwood told me that Karen,

her daughter, disappeared years ago,

when she was about my age,

and was never seen again.

If Karen was murdered, that would explain

her haunting the woods, wouldn't it?

Mrs Aylwood said there were three kids

with Karen that night.

One was John Keller,

and there was a Tom something. Collier?

Tom Colley. He lives in the woods

in the old lodge. Kind of a hermit.

And there was a girl. Mary... Mary Pierce.

- Mary Pierce?

- Yeah.

That was my mother's name

before she married Dad.

It was a long time ago. It's best forgotten.

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