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A smile crept slowly over Fenelon’s face "What do you have in mind?" he asked

"If I take them off the board, Brand is likely to be more reasonable with the split, don’t you think?"

"I don’t know about that I’d love to see those assholes in the jackpot, though They’re bent worse than a paper clip"

"What I need is evidence so strong that even a crooked county attorney couldn’t cover it up"

"I’ for testimony That’s just he said, she said stuff Besides, it’ll put you in trouble with your boss, and we don’t want hi, do we?"

"Uh-uh"

"What I need is so you can hold in your hand"

Fenelon drank some of his bourbon and followed it up with a sip of beer "They don’t just take cash payoffs," he said "Not that much cash around these days, you know? Sometimes they take et Brand to fence it for them sometiet it to the right people in exchange for envelopes filled with money"

Fenelon finished first his bourbon and then his beer

"Go on," I said

"I knohere they store the shit"

A few er door of Josie’s Ford Taurus She turned in the seat and looked up at me "Is he on our side now?" Josie asked

"Brian is on Brian’s side Don’t ever forget it"

"Oh, I won’t"

"Do you knohere a sht not even be a lake--they call it Cody Do you knohere it is?"

"Yes I sold soo"

"You drive"

Josie had to backtrack toward Krueger and then turned east ThatI’d have to drive it myself later, probably in the dark We eventually turned down a dirt road that led to the lake Josie slowed, not because it was hard to drive, but because ere looking for a little-used track that veered off of it We found it easily and followed it to a clearing just big enough to turn around a car and trailer On the edge of the clearing was a prefabricated pole barn We left the car to take a closer look There were no s A single door large enough for a sh was sealed with a cheap coh school lockers