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But that had been long ago

I didn’t do it I loved her

Sarah wasn’t afraid of ghosts, didn’t even believe in them Still, she didn’t want to be alone The silence and e

She went outside, conscientiously locked the door and headed for Hunky Harry’s

"Anderson’s a corpseyou"

Will’s back was to the front door, and Caleb knew the other man had no idea he’d just walked into Hunky Harry’s

Caroline, Renee, Barry and Sarah were all there, and they all saw Caleb and looked up at him in mortified silence

Will spun around, realized he’d been overheard and blushed "Sorry, buddy," he said, "but you have to adlad to see that the chair next to Sarah was open, and he didn’t hesitate to take it

He wondered if he looked as drained as he felt He’d spent the last few hours on the beach as Tim Jamison and his crew barricaded the area with yellow tape, then the crime scene unit had arrived, quickly followed by Floby

"Was it…do they think it was Winona Hart?" Sarah asked him

Apparently the news of his find had preceded him Will knew a lot of cops, and even with Lieutenant Ja order on the information, Caleb wasn’t surprised that it had traveled

"No," he said

"No?" Caroline said, surprised

"It was a young woued

"Yes," Caleb told theht have wanted to keep it quiet, as going to spread

"So as it?" Sarah asked

"We don’t know yet The body was in pretty bad shape The fingers were et any prints They’ll have to use dental records for an ID" He turned away,woht She saw hiave him was no-nonsense The waitresses at Hunky Harry’s were there to work They didn’t wear short-shorts and skimpy tank tops Jeans and T-shirts that advertised Hunky Harry’s were the unifor to be terrible for business The whole city will start to empty out," Caroline said "And of course those poor, poor woustine," Renee said

Barry put his arht," he told her

"I think you should dye your hair," Will told Caroline

The waitress set Caleb’s beer down, and he waited for her to leave before speaking

"Let’s not ju accident Maybe it has nothing to do with anything else that’s going on"

He didn’t believe it, though The corpse had been in such an advanced state of decomposition that it was impossible to tell how the wo, so violence see until he could get the body to theto commit to was the fact that she appeared to have been dead for so that if she had been dead that long, more of her should have been lost to the salt water--and the creatures whose home it was Which made Caleb suspect that she’d been dead for a while before her body had been consigned to the ocean, but he would leave it to Floby to figure that out

"Will said Ja to keep it quiet Why?" Sarah asked

"Because he doesn’t want a panic like Caroline was talking about, that’s why," Will said

"I’ more to say before he makes a statement," Caleb said "But with or withoutto have to call the papers quickly It’s better to have what facts there are out in thearound"

"How did you discover the body?" Sarah asked him

He looked down at his beer and winced Hadn’t she been listening to Will? Because he was a corpseto get a sense of the layout on the area where Winona Hart disappeared," he said "The body had washed up on shore It had been there several hours, by the look of things I really don’t think I attract dead bodies" He stared at Will

"Yeah, he wasn’t even in Sarah’s house when those bones showed up," Renee said, trying to be helpful

"She ht have washed up froer to turn the conversation away fros-on at her house "It could be a case of domestic violence A husband up in Jacksonville or down in Daytona, out on a boat, getting into a fight with his wife Maybe it was accidental He didn’t mean to kill her, and then he panicked and threw her overboard Or soht have happened Or…"

Sarah looked down at the table "Maybe it’s another in a long line of disappearances Just like before"