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She preceded hi straight to a table at the rear He eyed the single enized Will, Caroline and the other two docents from the museum, Renee Otten and Barry Travis

"Hey!" Will saw hi" He set an arive her a rub on the head They were obviously close They resembled one another, too, with the same shade of hair and eyes, so much alike, yet Will was as completelyI hope that’s all right," Caleb said, after greeting everyone

"It’s great!" Renee said enthusiastically

"I’ht for sure she’d blow us off tonight," Caroline said

"Here we go, another chair," Barry offered, pulling one over fro the seat

Everyone started talking at once, stepping on each other’s words, and he tried to keep up the chatter until a waitress came and took their orders He opted for the fish of the day and wondered why the others all gave him funny looks

As soon as the waitress left, the conversation turned to the skeletons in Sarah’s house

"How long do you think it will take them to remove them all?" Renee asked

"It can take lulared at him

"Sorry," Barry said

"You don’t have to let it take months," Caleb said to Sarah

They all stared at hi in the field, too, so you can call the shots So far, you’ve done all the right things, brought in the authorities and the experts Now you can take control You know the right people, so keep the processWhatever crio You can see to it that everything is done right, that people are respectful of both the bodies and the historical record And then you can let the forensic anthropologists have their day once the bodies are out of your house"

Sarah stared at hiuess so"

Caroline tossed her hair back "Don’t just guess Caleb is right Take control"

"It’s true This is the kind of work I was doing in Virginia, but I certainly wasn’t in charge In a lot of ways, historians are really just record keepers, secretaries for the past Once the bodies are removed and the re to research the situation And it is rinned "If there’s investigating to be done, there’s no reason why I can’t do it"

"And Caleb there can help you, I bet," Barry said

His words were followed by a moment of silence as everyone stared at Caleb

"Well, you’re an investigator, right?" Barry asked

"Yes, I’reed

"Yes, but I’m a historian," Sarah said "And the bodies in my house are over a hundred years old It’s not a police matter, because there’s no one left alive to arrest It’s all a matter for the historians now," Sarah said, then stood, as if agitated "Excuseto say hello to a friend at the bar"

Caleb noted that no one standing at the bar seeroup

He stayed at the table with the others It never hurt to know as many locals as he could It wasn’t likely that this foursoht know so about the area that could be pertinent at some point

And Sarah’s house…well, he had to admit it fascinated hiot a feeling like that, it alht," Will said, apologizing for Sarah

"I would be, too," Caroline said defensively

"It will better once those bodies are out of her house," Renee said

"Seriously," Barry said "She just found out she’s been sleeping with a bunch of bodies You talk about a haunted house…Their spirits are probably all running around screa, ‘Let

"So tell us about yourself," Caroline said, inching her chair closer to Caleb’s "You ? And you found a body in a subed car Did he drive off the road?"

"I found the body, and it’s in very bad condition The medical examiner is on it now As to how he ended up in the water, I’ll leave it to the police to figure that out," Caleb said

"There were no bullet holes in the car or anything like that?" Renee asked, intrigued

"Not that I saw, but then again, I wasn’t looking for any The police have custody of the car now, as well, and they’ll find out what happened," Caleb said