It was just twelve when Sophie reached Joanna’s front gate, out of breath with running. Joanna was standing in the front yard outside her family’s yellow house.
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"You’ve been gone for five hours!" Joanna said sharply.
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Sophie shook her head.
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"No, I’ve been gone for more than a thousand years."
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"Where on earth have you been? You’re crazy. Your mom called half an hour ago."
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"What did you tell her?"
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"I said you were at the drugstore. She said would you call her when you got back. But you should have seen my mom and dad when they came in with hot chocolate and rolls at ten this morning ... and your bed was empty."
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"What did you say to them?"
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"It was really embarrassing. I told them you went home because we got mad at each other."
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"So we’d better hurry up and be friends again. And we have to make sure your parents don’t talk to my mom for a few days. Do you think we can do that?"
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Joanna shrugged
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. Just then her father came around the corner with a wheelbarrow. He had a pair of coveralls on and was busy clearing up last year’s leaves and twigs .
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"Aha--so you’re friends again, I see. Well, there’s not so much as a single leaf left on the basement steps now."
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"Fine," said Sophie. "So perhaps we can have our hot chocolate there instead of in bed."
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Joanna’s dad gave a forced laugh, but Joanna gasped . Verbal exchanges had always been more robust in Sophie’s family than at the more well-to-do home of Mr. Ingebrigtsen, the financial adviser , and his wife.
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"I’m sorry, Joanna, but I felt I ought to take part in this cover-up operation as well."
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"Are you going to tell me about it?"
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"Sure, if you walk home with me. Because it’s not for the ears of financial advisers or overgrown Barbie dolls."
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"That’s a rotten thing to say! I suppose you think a rocky marriage that drives one of the partners away to sea is better?"
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"Probably not. But I hardly slept last night. And another thing, I’ve begun to wonder whether Hilde can see everything we do."
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They began to walk toward Clover Close.
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"You mean she might have second sight?"
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"Maybe. Maybe not."
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Joanna was clearly not enthusiastic about all this secrecy .
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"But that doesn’t explain why her father sent a lot of crazy postcards to an empty cabin in the woods."
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"I admit that is a weak spot."
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"Do you want to tell me where you have been?"
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So she did. Sophie told her everything, about the mysterious philosophy course as well. She made Joanna swear to keep everything secret.
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They walked for a long time without speaking. As they approached Clover Close, Joanna said, "I don’t like it."
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She stopped at Sophie’s gate and turned to go home again.
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"Nobody asked you to like it. But philosophy is not a harmless party game. It’s about who we are and where we come from. Do you think we learn enough about that at school?"
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"Nobody can answer questions like that anyway."
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"Yes, but we don’t even learn to ask them!"
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Lunch was on the table when Sophie walked into the kitchen. Nothing was said about her not having called from Joanna’s.
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After lunch Sophie announced that she was going to take a nap. She admitted she had hardly slept at Joanna’s house, which was not at all unusual at a sleepover.
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Before getting into bed she stood in front of the big brass mirror which now hung on her wall. At first she only saw her own white and exhausted face. But then-- behind her own face, the faintest suggestion of another face seemed to appear. Sophie took one or two deep breaths. It was no good starting to imagine things.
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She studied the sharp contours of her own pale face framed by that impossible hair which defied any style but nature’s own. But beyond that face was the apparition of another girl. Suddenly the other girl began to winkfrantically with both eyes, as if to signal that she was really in there on the other side. The apparition lasted only a few seconds. Then she was gone.
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Sophie sat down on the edge of the bed. She had absolutely no doubt that it was Hilde she had seen in the mirror. She had caught a glimpse of her picture on a school I.D. in the major’s cabin. It must have been the same girl she had seen in the mirror.
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Wasn’t it odd, how she always experienced mysterious things like this when she was dead tired. It meant that afterward she always had to ask herself whether it really had happened.
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As Sophie stood up and began to tidy her bed, she found a gold crucifix on a chain under her pillow. On the back of the crucifix there were three letters engraved : HMK.
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This was not the first time Sophie had dreamed she found a treasure. But this was definitely the first time she had brought it back from the dream.