for the next half hour , there was a steady stream of trick-or-treaters ringing her doorbell , from cute little angels and devils to teenagers wearing hideous masks . it wasnt your fault jenny ; i want you to know that , he said softly . had he been blind and deaf , he could have found her in the bottom of a well at midnight . he saw that the sidewalk was real . there was a small area where the bushes that covered the top of the slope had been disturbed . 