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I was only a few miles north of Mankato when my cell phone played its melody I fuht for a drive"

"Schroeder?"

"Yep"

"Where are you?"

"On your bulanced in h beams at me

"So, how are you doin’?" he asked

"I’ve been better"

"How’s the bullet hole?"

"Not a hole A scratch Granted, it took eleven stitches to close it, but a scratch just the sa tih bunch"

"What happened?"

"What’s the ?"

"Yes"

"Don’t worry about it Mallinger took the hint Your name never came up When her officers and the sheriff deputies finally arrived, she told them that she had shot Testen She told them that she went to see Testen about a traffic accident involving ht have been premeditated, that Testen had atteht have killed Josie Bloom over a ations beyond Gene Hugoson’s testimony, at least not until Testen shot her when she started asking questions She said she went to see Testen alone at night because Testen was an iossip in case the allegations proved unfounded Eventually, they put her under anesthesia and took the bullet out of her armpit Even doped up she stuck to her story By then it sounded erprints all over Josie’s place Apparently he thought they would never even bother to look"

"What about the girl?"

"Elizabeth Rogers?"

"That’s her name"

"I cornered Kevin Salisbury alone at the hospital He’s a reporter for the Victoria Herald"

"I know him"

"Of course, you do I told Salisbury that Coach Testen killed Elizabeth I couldn’t supply him with a motive; I couldn’t tell him what happened in Josie Bloom’s basement--"