While she is busy trying to connect to Louie's dead uncle, the rest of the boys investigate the house.

I kept silent, not knowing whether he meant the dead uncle or the live nephew.

What you're doing, I mean, not that your uncle's dead.

He took a deep breath and resumed the story of his dead uncle.

She said the Swarthy Man looked like her dead uncle.

They named him after his poor dead uncle," he added as an afterthought.

All of a sudden, pet, your dead uncle has put more pressure on you than we ever could.

He realized that he could meet his dead uncle as an equal.

His dead uncle had left him a small fortune not to be a wizard.

Until then he was stuck at the house on his own, or rather in the company of his dead uncle.