Chapter 3 Date: 12/19/01 1:26:19 PM Central Standard Time From: Peggy Boone Willie was getting worried. There still wasn't any sign of Barnabas. He was thinking about going to the sheriff, but he was afraid to go into Collinsport to tell the sheriff that Barnabas was missing from the Old House and leave Julia alone at the Old House. He knew how upset she was about Barnabas. Willie wondered if there was more to Julia and Barnabas' relationship than what they had let on. He remembered a couple days after Barnabas had disappeared. He returned to the Old House after running errands and found her sitting in the chair crying. He waited until Julia ventured out of the Old House and walked to Collinwood, before he got in the car, drove into Collinsport and talked to the sheriff. At Collinwood, Elizabeth Stoddard was shocked to see Julia. She did not seem like the same woman who had been at Collinwood. She knew what was bothering her. She was worried about Barnabas being gone and her not knowing where he was and when or if he would be coming back. David had found her in the drawing room and asked her what was wrong. She had told her nephew that Barnabas was gone and no one seemed to know where he was. He had asked her when he was going to come back and she told him that she didn't know. The sheriff had gone back to the Old House with Willie and had looked through the whole house and the grounds, but he didn't find any sign of Barnabas. As the sheriff had searched the Old House, he had found one thing he had left behind. The cane with the silver wolf's head, that he never went anywhere without, still leaned against the wall where it always stood.
