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Previously

…Then I noticed a faint mark near the bottom. A small symbol. A tree. The same symbol I had seen on my mother's letters. My heart began beating faster. I turned towards the door. The corridor outside was silent. But I could no longer ignore the feeling that someone else was moving through the house, following the same trail I was trying to uncover. I switched off the lamp. For several minutes, I lay awake, listening to the wind outside. And just before sleep finally took me, a thought crossed my mind. Perhaps the greatest secret of Ashford Manor was not what had happened twenty-three years ago. Perhaps it was the reason everyone had been so determined to forge