The Circular Staircase -- Chapter XXVI

CHAPTER XXVI: Halsey’s Disappearance

Nothing that had gone before had been as bad as this. The murder and Thomas’ sudden death we had been able to view in a detached sort of way. But with Halsey’s disappearance everything was altered. Our little circle, intact until now, was broken. We were no longer onlookers who saw a battle passing around them. We wer…