"Miss Lawson, I don’t believe in ghosts."  Miss Hamilton said, twisting the phone cord in her fingers.

"Then how do you explain my Katie leaving school and taking three hours to get back, when it usually takes thirty minutes?  She said her dad took her hand and said he was protecting her."

"I don’t see the problem with that."

"Katie’s dad is dead."  Mary Lawson replied.

"Kids can get around well enough on their own Miss Lawson.  Why, I’ve lost count of stories we’ve heard of kids deciding they want a toy and go wandering around the streets at night and their parents have no idea." Miss Hamilton said.

"Yes, but my daughter is blind!"

A week later, Mary was shocked to discover in the local news that a young girl had been kidnapped from the very street Katie Lawson used to walk home by.  She had been found murdered.