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She ht over there Want to givea bit"

"How do you know?"

"A hunch Instinct I don’t know But I want to try over there"

He looked both skeptical and annoyed, but he joined her nonetheless

They began to work in silence Leslie looked up, intending to sone

She didn’t kno long she worked, she was so absorbed in what she was doing And then, at last, she hit a fragment of wood

"Brad"

"What?"

"Look" She dusted the piece and handed it to him "Coffin?" she asked softly

"Let’s keep going"

A minute later he let out a hoarse cry He’d co it could actually be termed a board

"We’re on it," Leslie murmured

"Delicately, delicately now…just the brushes, nohave orked together?"

He didn’t even look up

She found the first bone A breastbone They both stopped and looked at each other

"Let’s go a little farther," he whispered

She nodded They went back to work, meticulously, slowly Her back ached, but she scarcely noticed the discomfort Minutes passed Eventually they revealed the skeletal remains of a woes of tiold cross Very tiny, a poor woet up and summon the others, Leslie realized that they were already surrounded Silently, and one by one, about twenty people, including Professor Laymon, Robert Adair and Hank Smith, had circled carefully around their position

"Uraveyard," Leslie said

"We knew there was a church here It’s a churchyard There will be lots of graves, and, with luck, they’ll reveal volu about the area," Professor Laymon said, pleased

Leslie wondered if Hank Smith felt happy He shouldn’t This would put his project on hold for some time

But Hank Sive his true e of whatever he was feeling

Layasirl, Leslie thought with a sraphers over here…and the news crews" He frowned He didn’t want anyone tra on what he now considered to be his territory, but they could always use the publicity, and, anyway, there was no way not to allow the press at least soood PR that kept the developers happy "Sergeant Adair, will you post a guard, please? And e bring her up, I want her in situ…the dirt around her and beneath her"

Layed in a laboratory soht He was in a s halfway down his nose, and his hair was dusty and sticking out at odd angles She sot into his work

Hank Smith reached down to help her up the little incline fro about leaving Mary’s et to oversee as soon as the photographers are done," Layrinned at Hank S He earing a suit that appeared to be the ned for business He looked like aI’m a rinned "In fact, you can mess me up any time you like"

"Thanks," she murmured, unsure just how to take his words

Brad had stepped up on his own; others werecloser

Leslie noted that Robert Adair had walked off She frowned, trying to see where he had gotten to

"S her close A reporter had arrived Leslie found herself standing between Hank and Laymon, and the men slipped their arms around her quickly A flash went off

Great

"Hey, Miss MacIntyre, you’re getting fa neoman called to her "How did you find this lady?"

"The site was found for me," she returned

"Want to escape?" Hank Smith whispered to her

"Yes," she said "Brad and Laymon can handle this"

"Miss MacIntyre--"