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"I’m so happy to hear we’re a business expense," Sarah said

He let out a sigh of aggravation, staring at her "What the hell is it with you? You’re the one who invited me here"

She was quiet for a moment, then shook her head "I don’t know I honestly don’t know Anyway, don’t worry about paying Al--the bartender--told me that Harry was here earlier, saw us and told our waitress not to give us a check So ere all Harry’s guests tonight And I have to show up to work too, then"

She waved to several people as they left, and a few called out to her in return, but at least no one was asking her about the grisly find in her house

Even so, he was certain that the whispering would start as soon as they were gone

They walked in silence for a fewto to Jacksonville," he said

She looked over at hiirl is in Jacksonville?"

"No I think she’s here And I think Winona Hart is going to be found here, too--eventually But I want to go to the agency where Jennie rented her car I would have done that today, but I had the opportunity to go on the dive, and I didn’t want to miss it"

"There is the possibility that she just drove off into the sunset," Sarah said

"No She didn’t get insurance on the car because her parents had insurance that already covered her If she’d been planning on just taking off with the car, she’d have bought insurance so that her parents wouldn’t be liable," he said

"You overestimate people," Sarah said "If she was depressed or upset about so about insurance"

"But she wasn’t depressed, and she wasn’t upset"

"How can you be so certain?"

"I talked to her parents"

"The parents are often the last to know," she reminded him

"Not these parents"

She was still skeptical, he could see, but he didn’t argue with her

"Do you really think you can read people that well?" she asked at last

"Not always, but so masks," Sarah pointed out

"Very true"

"So how do you deal with that?" she asked

"All ht heat," he said "So what about you? What will you be doing to to work I need the htly resentful

"You’re not going to hang at ho over your property?"

"I’ll let theet involved," she said

They had reached the B&B Caleb used his key to open the front door instead of going around the side to his private entrance "Thanks for inviting lad you could come," she answered, but there wasn’t a lot of warmth in her words They were courteous, spoken by rote

"Well, have a good day at work to does see on around here," he said

She smiled "I’m not a blonde And I’ht now"

"Two blondes have gone ht be coincidence If the two disappearances are connected, the real linkelse entirely," Caleb said "Everyone needs to be careful right now No one knows yet what links the irls"

She smiled "I’ll be careful And I’ll see you at breakfast, anyway"

"Right"

She hadn’t headed toward her roo fro at him closely "Caroline is convinced that she’s seen you before"

"Yeah, I know But I don’t see how But anything is possible, I guess Maybe we crossed paths in an airport so at him

"Yes?" he said at last