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"I’ll talk to Lia," David said

"David, really-" She broke off, seeing his eyes "Pepper spray sounds like soht Listen for et a bite to eat," she said

He went his way

David didn’t know theat the ice-crealer, the e of Spanish that David didn’t really follow But he knew enough to understand that Danny Zigler was being cursed

"I’m sorry-he didn’t show up for work?" David asked

"The little rat bastard just disappeared," the , clean theAt ten Mrs Clasky calls me to tell , when I gave that good-for-nothing a job!" thehilared at him as if he was an idiot "Of course, I call him! His phone is turned off"

"Have you been to his house?" David asked

The fellow, a tall, beefy man, leaned on the counter "Do you seeby his house!"

"Do you have an address for hiry and exasperated "You the cops or so,’" David told him

The man stared another moment, muttered, then reached under the counter for a memo pad He wrote down an address off Union Street David thanked hi as he started toward Union It was Liaht anyone in for questioning yet?"

"No Uniforuess he and Stella were an ite to track down the crowd that was outside O’Hara’s the other night He thinks one of those college kids has to know soler didn’t show up for work"

"We don’t have anything for a search warrant, and he didn’t answer at his place," Lia?" David asked

"Yeah You’d askeddown Mike Sanderson-Tanya’s new boyfriend, the guy she was supposed to meet up at Ohio State"

"And?"

"We know this much about Mike Sanderson-he used one of his credit cards for gas in St Augustine on the thirteenth-the day after Tanya was killed," Lia at her side She cast a sideways glance his way "Where have you been?" she asked

"Naturally, I have been using my charm and persuasion to discover the truth," he told her

"Oh? So-where have you been seeking this truth?" she asked hi the crime-scene folks," he said

"And what did you learn there?"

"That they’re not going to get uess everyone knows this-there was no sign of a break-in They had the owners and athered in an area, and that lieutenant fellow-Dryer-was pretty hard on the to kno many keys were out and around Two fellows-snowbirds-own the place, but there are threeanywhere, but Lia approach, and it turns out that one of the ers left one of the eed to lose the keys They didn’t rekey the place, they just had another set of keys made Whoever broke into the place used the keys, apparently knew the alar-other than the Carl Tanzler/Elena de Hoyos exhibit Oh-they found Elena The mannequin of Elena, that is She was just behind one of the other exhibits So, this is what I knohoever did it was bright enough to grab the security tapes, use gloves-and find out the alar in Stella Martin’s body"

"So we are thinking local," Katie murmured "Because I’d say whoever did it had to have followed people around When the employee lost the keys, he had to have found therinned "That, my dear, was not difficult There was a medallion on the key chain that advertised the uess Hey, did the police hold anyone frooing over everything that they have and they’ll be bringing folks in for questioning by this afternoon," Bartholoht," Katie reminded Bartholomew

"Ah, yes I came back to the house, but you were-occupied I turned on the coffee You didn’t even realize it!" He was hurt

"I’m sorry, Bartholomew," Katie said "I really aone down first"

"David!" Bartholomew said, and sniffed "You have rushed headfirst into this!" he said

"I keep telling you, make up your mind You like him or you don’t like him," Katie said

"Since he ith you, he definitely didn’t kill the prostitute," Bartholoh He reo"