Deja’s Diary (9th entry)

1893, 28 June  

Dear Diary,

I’ve decided to stay indoors as Daddy has instructed—I am certain that Daddy understands the dangers that reside here at Kinsport Manor. I will speak with him about my visions when he returns, for I feel that with his history here, we may better understand who or what is in danger…

And, Laura…what does she want from me?

I now stay where I am safe; the library holds true happiness for me. Here, I am at ease, and all alone. George does not enjoy books as I do, and the help here at Kinsport are far too busy to read; only Daddy enters here, but Daddy is gone.

I have come across some very interesting clippings that sat in an old scrapbook, hidden away in a cubby above the portrait of my Great-Great grandfather, Arthur Reynold Kinsport II. They are yellowed and brittle, but still very much legible. Many of them are taken from the Country Gazette, which is no longer publishing. I imagine that it had followed all of the most prestigious and wealthy families in the New England territory! Kinsport had once been a very wealthy family and most respected as well….

I question what may have happened, to make the Kinsport family die out in the middle of such a successful lineage. I am young, but not naïve….all families hold secrets, I am well aware; however, not all families have ghosts that live on after such tragedies occur!

I feel that a thorough examination of these family clippings may shed new light on Kinsport secretive past. I am eager to begin my work tomorrow morning, as tonight, I have promised Mrs. Brill that I will stay in sight of her and limit my wandering to only the parlor and the study.

She has been terribly on edge since that day in the garden. Neither she nor I have spoken about it further, and frankly, I wish to forget the subject all together!

How silly I was to have mentioned Laura to her. I have to be more careful whom I speak to about this matter. I do not want to appear mad as my father had…

For, I am not mad—only all too eager to solve this puzzle.

But how does one solve a puzzle, with pieces still missing?