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4942

HIS FATHER HAD BEEN A TRADER AND HAD TRAVELED OFTEN, LOOKING FOR THE CHANCE EXOTIC OR RARE ITEM.  

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4941

PEOPLE OF MEANS HAD OFTEN SOUGHT HIM OUT, INTERESTED IN WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE TURNED UP.  

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4940

IT SEEED TO BE THE LOOKING, MORE THAN THE FINDING, THAT HE HAD LIKED, AS HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN HAPPY TO PART WITH HIS LATEST DISCOVERY SO HE COULD BE OFF AFTER THE NEXT.  

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4939

FROM A YOUNG AGE, RICHARD HAD LIKED TO SPEND TIME WITH ZEDD WHILE HIS FATHER WAS AWAY.  

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4938

RICHARD'S BROTHER, MICHAEL, WAS A FEW YEARS OLDER, AND HAVING NO INTEREST IN THE WOODS, OR IN ZEDD'S RAMBLING LECTURES, PREFERRED TO SPEND HIS TIME WITH PEOPLE OF MEANS.  

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4937

ABOUT FIVE YEARS BEFORE, RICHARD HAD MOVED AWAY TO LIVE ON HIS OWN, BUT HE OFTEN STOPPED BY HIS FATHER'S HOME, UNLIKE MICHAEL, WHO WAS ALWAYS BUSY AND RARELY HAD TIME TO VISIT.  

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4936

WHENEVER HIS FATHER WENT AWAY, HE WOULD LEAVE RICHARD A MESSAGE IN THE BLUE JAR TELLING HIM THE LATEST NEWS, SOME GOSSIP, OR OF SOME SIGHT HE HAD SEEN.  

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4935

ON THE DAY THREE WEEKS BEFORE WHEN MICHAEL HAD COME TO TELL HIM THEIR FATHER HAD BEEN MURDERED, RICHARD HAD GONE TO HIS FATHER'S HOSUE, DESPITE HIS BROTHER'S INSISTENCE THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO GO, NOTHING HE COULD DO.  

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4934

RICHARD HAD LONG SINCE PASSED THE AGE WHEN HE DID AS HIS BROTHER SAID.  

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4933

WANTING TO SPARE HIM, THE PEOPLE THERE DIDN'T LET HIM SEE THE BODY.  

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4932

BUT STILL, HE SAW THE BIG, SICKENING SPLASHES AND PUDDLES OF BLOOD, BROWN AND DRY ACROSS THE PLANK FLOOR.  

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4931  

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4930  

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4929  

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4928