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"I think there’s some kind of connection betent on back then and what’s going on now, and I can’t wait for the historians and the anthropologists to do whatever it is they do I need to kno" He hesitated "And I also want you to do a test foranyone"

"Oh?"

"A DNA test"

"I’ll need someone to compare her DNA to"

"You have so his head over a cup of coffee, not looking at Sarah She had brought hi she had done, and the details of Caleb’s investigation

"The ator, Will--corpses are a part of his work," Sarah said and stood up, suddenly ilad that her cousin ith her Not that she was afraid to be alone, she told herself, but things had been so strange lately that she was glad of the co to worry about on the safety front, she was free to focus on the one thing that seemed iht about it a lot, and as crazy as it see she’d always believed, she’d coht have been buried in Virginia, but he was here now, because girls were disappearing again, and he wanted it to stop He didn’t want to see a repeat of what had happened before

"This place is creepy, Sarah," Will was saying now "I houls," he said "And I don’t like just how oing on Okay, the bones in your house weren’t your fault But since Mr Corpse Magnet is trying to find whoever killed that woirls, as well--I don’t think you should be hanging around with him so much I mean, I like him, I honestly do But I’…and people decide you know it, too? You could be in danger, Sarah"

"Stop it," she warned hiroaned and leaned his head on the table "It’s barely eight in the , and I don’t have to work until this afternoon"

"Quit whining"

"I’htened and said, "Let’s go pay a social call"

He stared at her as if she had lost her hter disappeared--in or around this house"

"Do you think she’s the corpse in the attic? And why the hell haven’t you called the cops yet?"

"No, she isn’t the corpse in the attic"

"How do you know?"

"The clothing is Victorian, certainly not from the 1920s And we haven’t called anyone in yet because ant to hold off--just a bit--on causing another frenzy Please, Will, you have to pay attention toto bring Floby here to see the body, and I want to talk to Mr Griffin"

"What about Caleb? Shouldn’t you wait ’til he gets here?"

"I’ll just send hiets back before we do We’re just going around the corner"

"All right," Will said with a sigh "Let’s go"

Floby sat in the car, staring straight ahead "You certainly do have a knack for finding bodies"

Caleb groaned aloud "We were diving--hoping to find a body--when I found the guy in his car Wrong body, but a mystery solved" He fell silent for ato do with the ?

Frederick J Russell, banker That ho he’d turned out to be

"Floby, you finished the autopsy on Frederick Russell, right?" he asked

"Of course"