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"While you’re at it, draw me a map of the area and shohere the woman came froel did as asked, then looked Caleb straight in the eye and asked, "Do you think you’ll find Winona?" he asked "Alive?" He looked a little sick, as if he were afraid of the answer

"We’re all trying"

When he left Nigel, Caleb headed back for his car Mindy Marshall was next on his list of people to question, but before he talked to her, he wanted to walk on the beach where Winona Hart had last been seen

He had just found another connection between the two htened

Frightened--to death?

Vicky Hind was pleased when Sarah returned "This is so exciting," she said "Well, sad, too, but not that sad I mean, Mrs Abrams was ninety-two, and she died in her sleep"

"Pardon?" Sarah said

"Not ten o, we received a donation from Ethel Abrams Well, from her estate She lived in the old Pickens-Aubrey house down the street Youto do soood for the city"

"Mrs Abrams…" Sarah mused "Oh, yes, I do re, but she was always dressed up, wearing a hat and gloves"

"That’s her Was her," Vicky corrected herself "She passed away about a week ago Anyway, she left us soht that you h therand the Civil War I found a journal I thought ht help you, and you can help us, too You’re a historian, so you can catalogue the contents"

"That’s wonderful I’d love to read it," Sarah said "Would you ed onto the computer for a few minutes first?"

"Help yourself," Vicky told her

Sarah was faned onto her favorite--and entered Caleb’s nainia? Worth a try

She filled in the state, without a clue as to the city, then paused again She didn’t have his date of birth or a current address

Giving up on that approach, she filled in Cato MacTavish’s naustine, Florida Year of birth? She gave a range in the 1830s He’d served in the Confederate Ar with the address of the house that was now hers, then clicked on Search

Thirty seconds later, she had her results

A death certificate had been filed for a Cato MacTavish in 1901, in Fairfax, Virginia He’d left behind one son There was no nus, who in turn had died in 1919

Magnus had been survived by his three daughters, E in infor her search

In 1901, Ee license and wed a Mr John Anderson of Colonial Beach, Virginia

For a moment, Sarah stared at the screen, a for so easily

Then she started searching again

John Anderson and Emily MacTavish had one son in 1903, Ellsworth Ellsworth married a wohters, Michaela and Genevieve, and one son, another John In 1950, John’s son, Andreas born, and then…

Andrew and his wife, Cynthia, had their first child, a son named Caleb

Caleb Anderson

The beach was exquisite Off the beaten path, it was surrounded by pine trees and washed by gentle waves

Caleb found the place where the kids had built their bonfire Though they had conscientiously doused the flames and broken down the remains, the evidence was clear in the scraps of burned wood They had picked up all their beer bottles, cans and leftovers, though The place was aly clean It was also the kind of place a person had to know about to arrive at, secluded from view and at least a third of a le path from the road to the beach, found the darkened pit in the sand and done a cursory visual search Pine and bracken to the left, pine and bracken to the right, and pines and oaks behind him, many draped with the Spanish moss so common in the area