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"Oh, good Lord! Go watch the cats," Katie cried out

Mike Sanderson hadn’t uttered a word David was staring at hiers and press theet out of here!" she said

She grabbed both et out of the crowd, she was going to have to get through the busy streets

Walking arm in arm with Robert the Doll

But Clarinda had reached theht behind her Neither of the on, but Clarinda was always intuitive in any situation "We can go right down Front Street, past the Old Customs House and the Westin, and then duck into Jonas’s place Follow ling with fighting young adults But after the first few seconds, there was no resistance from either man When Mike Sanderson did stop suddenly, he explained himself quickly "I have a boxful of money back there-I need it" He blushed "I’et it," Jonas told them

"You pretend to be on a sales trip-and you come here to pretend to be Robert the Doll?" David demanded

"Fantasy Fest, every year," Mike Sanderson ad this?" David asked

"Since I left Well, not exactly I finished college, and then, since then…"

"Why?" Katie asked

"I love it I love Fantasy Fest I always have My wife hates it So I pretend I’m on a sales trip"

"How can you love this place-when Tanya died here?" David de He was rock-solid; Katie al, he then pulled her back

"I didn’t kill Tanya!" Sanderson said angrily "And don’t kid yourself-I know exactly who you are, and I know that she stayed here just because she wanted to talk to you I don’t think she was ever co with me Not once you had coet inside for this discussion," Clarinda said "That’s Jonas’s place, there"

"It’s an inn," David said

"Yes, yes, but go up the stairs, he keeps the whole second floor of theback up to the, isn’t it? Crowd like that-not a soul touched his s are decent"

No one answered hiet upstairs," he said

The outer door was open; it led to hallith signs that indicated rooes outside They hurried up the stairs; the door in the hallas locked and Jonas quickly opened it for the across the roo off the Velcro that held his Robert the Doll sailor outfit together in the back He earing the costume over a pair of cutoff jeans and a simple white T-shirt He folded it and put it at his feet Katie realized that David was still holding the man’s cloth mask and sailor hat when Sanderson reached out to hies, but I doin Mallory Square, pretending to be Robert the Doll?" Clarinda said incredulously

"Four hundred bucks already tonight," Sanderson said "Beats selling vacuu"

"But-you were supposed to be a big-shot football player at Ohio State!" Katie said

"Knee injury They loved me before it-I was yesterday’s news afterward," Sanderson said

She studied hiht brown eyes and a pretty-boy face that seees now, as if he were a man who liked his booze

"The police down here want to talk to you," David told him

"Yeah, I know, my wife called me," he said

"So why didn’t you come into the police station?" David asked hih of iet it? No one knows I do this Hell, what, everyone’s life turns out to be what they want? I come down here I see all the naked painted boobs for Fantasy Fest I don’t go with any lowlifes, I don’t pick up any sexual diseases, I just do a lot of looking and drinking, and Ion a Robert the Doll costu What the hell is wrong with you, and what the hell business is it of yours that I do this?"

"It’s police business because you lied when they questioned you a decade ago," David said "And it’s police business because another woman wasup on Key West legend," Sanderson said "I loved Tanya! I wouldn’t have hurt her for the world I was young I waited for her-then I figured that she’d chosen you over ot the hell out!"

"You will have to tell that story to the police," David said

Sanderson straightened where he sat "Sure I’ll be happy to do so"

"When did you get here?" he asked

Sanderson shook his head and winced "Last Friday," he said