CONSIDERATE 

          PART 19

Finally, he got out of the truck, walked over to the house, and went

inside.  There was not one single stick of furniture in the rooms.

Jagged scars showed in the ceiling where the electric fixtures had been 

torn away.  The house had been wrecked years before by vandals, by 

neglect, by the merciless wearing of the sun and the rain.

     In shape alone were the hallway and the living room as Jason

remembered them.  "There," he thought, "is where the bookcases were.

The table was there."  Suddenly, he stopped, and stared at the dusty

boards underfoot.

     On the naked floor lay the butt of a cigarette.  And, a half-dozen

feet away, lay another cigarette that had not been smoked--that had not

even been lighted!  Jason turned around blindly and, like an automaton,

walked out of the house.

1) DO JASON BELIEVE NOW THAT JOHN AND LILLIAN WERE GHOSTS?

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