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"Was her purse stolen? What do you think her attacker wanted?"

"No, and I don’t know," Caroline said

"Why just hit so from them--or worse?" Sarah asked "It doesn’t et back out there Hang in within as long as you need ether these days" She shivered, then hurried out of the roo in Jaravated with hi that Caleb hadn’t kept hiation into the woht of the party

Noever, Caleb had been over everything he’d discovered, and Tim Jamison was still hostile "You had a clue--and you went out without telling me?" Jamison demanded

"Look, it was a worthless trip The Martha Tyler in Cassadaga is elderly and petite, and she wasn’t running around on the beach the night the Hart girl disappeared"

"She’s a medium," Jamison said "She didn’t tell you where to find the killer?" he asked sarcastically

"No, she didn’t," Caleb said and leaned forward "Look, it’s very possible you have a living witness--Renee Otten Why aren’t ith her now, pressuring her to tell you what she knows?"

"I’ve already questioned her," Jamison said

Caleb hesitated He wanted to remind Jamison that the police had also questioned the kids from the beach and hadn’t come up with Martha Tyler’s na relationship--quite the opposite, so he refrained

"I’d like to speak with her ot hit on the head while she alking ho that a killer is loose in the city? Whoever attacked her, it wasn’t our killer or she’d be ht now"

"Unless someone came up and interrupted the killer before he could carry her off"

"What do you think we are--backwoods yokels?" Jamison asked "We’ve released her picture, and thefor help, anony"

"Even so, do you mind if I question herBut I want to know everything--and I do --you find out Which re the newest body froravated He’d been looking worn-out before; today he really looked like hell His suit rinkled, and his shoes werean antacid "Well?" he persisted

"I think that corpse is an ancestor of mine," Caleb said

Jamison frowned "Excuse me?"

"Sarah McKinley did some research, and she found a direct link froht and that corpse is Cato’s fiancée Eleanora, there’s a possibility she’s randmother"

Jamison shook his head "Look, Eleanora Stewart died or disappeared halfway through the war, and the odds are that your ancestor did her in Meanwhile, I have to, another one dead on the beach, and you’re trying to catch a killer fro for your roots?"

"I didn’t know a daot here," Caleb said, trying to control his te a jerk, but he was still the lead hoator and someone Caleb needed on his side

Ada cal to do with being the better uy realize he was being a jerk Caleb tried it now, sitting back and letting Jamison take the lead

"You’ve talked with Floby, so you know about the drugs in our corpse’s systeht?" Jamison asked

"An opium derivative and yaupon holly," Caleb said

"Yaupon holly, a key ingredient of the so-called ‘black drink,’" Ja to relive the past Maybe trying to get revenge for the way his people were treated way back when"

Caleb groaned aloud "Co to convincehis ancestors andwomen because of some centuries-old vendetta? That’s absurd"

"You’re the one suggesting that we’ve had a killer hanging around for more than a hundred and fifty years Now that’s absurd"

"I never said that I’ the past or honestly believes in black ic I think you have a couple, a , but for exactly what reason, I don’t know, though the body on the beach was drained of blood, and thatto do with it It’s a theory of , , and all in the dark--I’d say two people One with the real power of persuasion One easily led I’ll tell you one thing for sure, this is soends"

Ja to follow the Seminole lead--and the yaupon holly I also have host tour, history tour and haunted happening out there I don’t think Miss Otten will speak with you--she seems to be afraid of you But knock yourself out Do whatever you want short of trespassing, harassing ora public nuisance out of yourself"