Chapter ThirteenBeatrice and Meadow glanced at each other.
“Why would you say that?” asked Beatrice.
Della snorted. “Because Malcolm and I didn’t do it. And Sadie is dead. The only person left is Hawkins, unless you think Barkis did it. And why on earth would he do that? This family is his entire life. Besides, Hawkins has been acting strange lately. He’s been very erratic with when he eats and when he sleeps. He wanders around at night almost like a ghost. I was relieved when he said that he was going to get up early in the morning and help Barkis because it meant that maybe things were going back to normal. But instead?” Della shrugged. “Who knows how messed up he’s going to be now?”
Meadow said with a frown, “So you think that Hawkins is putting on an act about how upset he is? Beca
