Arvo resisted the urge to ask who he’d be keeping it from? Who did he think would not only want to stay in a place like this but would insist on having the room with its view of that giant pile of dead trees and tangled roots?At first he thought that being surprised and upset had caused him to forget where he’d left the hearse. Had he not parked it in the shade of that old apple tree? A chill of panic swept through him.“What the hell is going on? Where’s the hearse?”Sandy Macgregor hadn’t yet gone inside. “What hearse is that?”“Have you got people that park cars out of sight like some fancy hotel?”“Nobody’s here this week but me — and the cleaning lady.” The cleaning lady’s vacuum cleaner could be heard roaring somewhere inside. Apparently she hadn’t driven off in the hearse — unless, of course, she’d left the vacuum cleaner on in order to fool them while she made her getaway.Sandy looked a bit blank, as though it was someone else’s turn to explain the situation.
