"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.