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Nine Tenants, Eight Keys
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Edda grabs the landlord's wrist and shows him the ink. 'You smudged her name this morning, while the house was still burning. Why?' Halloran crumples. 'Because if anyone found out she was never really gone, they'd dig her up. And I couldn't let them.'
Edda has the cellar dug up that afternoon. Under the dirt floor they find Dahlia, wrapped in a quilt, a brass key clutched in her bones, the ninth key. Halloran weeps. 'She was my daughter. The fall was an accident. I just wanted her to stay home.' Case closed, and broken.
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