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"Who is it?" she asked

He didn’t glance her way "Sa at David, and then at theacross the ce, at last calling out His voice carried on the breeze She heard hi out, "Sam!"

Sam turned slowly He was clean shaven now, in Dockers and a polo shirt, and she wondered if he had been as drunk as she had thought last night, or if he had been playing the drunk, watching folks at the bar He had to have been familiar with O’Hara’s-her uncle’s bar had been there for twenty-five years But her uncle, Jamie O’Hara, had not been there Jon Merrillo had been on as the er, and Jon had only been in Key West for five years

Katie felt her heart thundering For a ht that she should turn away, that none of this was any of her business But then she felt a trigger of unease No, fear What if the two o after one another? Maybe Saeance on his mind David Beckett had just returned, and suddenly Sa into her handbag for her phone, ready to dial 911

But she didn’t

The twoto one another, and walked toward the grave together

She felt a strange sensation-not cold, not heat, just a htly Bartholo," he said "Seriously, you know, I like that fellow He reed "Hey, it ht have been one of his ancestors, come to think of it"

"I thought he was a jerk and you were going to protect me from him," Katie said dryly

Bartholo himself That’s what life is all about, eh? We make mistakes, we earn redemption So, you want to join up with them?"

"No No, I want to slip away"

"Wait"

"Wait-for what?" Katie asked

"Maybe Tanya Barnard is hanging around the cemetery"

"Do you see anyone? I don’t," Katie said

"No," Bartholoone on all the way But she was murdered, and her murder was never solved You’d think, with her brother and ex-fiancé together, she would hosts were stirring None at all

They were probably unhappy with the laughing tourists

Every man and woman born came to the end of their lives Death was the only certainty in life

But ghosts could be touchy

"Let’s go I have to go to work tonight and I want to do so to hang around a bit longer," Bartholo for your lady in white?" Katie asked

"A bit of both I’ for you,wait"

"Well, thanks for that vote of encourage the ceate Neither of the ether, noticed that she left

Sam Barnard was David’s senior by four years He’d been in college when David had been in theout, but they’d shared many a holiday dinner with one or the other’s fa’s death, and I’d heard they were trying to reach you," Sah, I didn’t come down to payto buy theback Not just the fact that my kid sister was murdered, but the way she was left…and the fact that her killer was never found Hell, I didn’t come down to start trouble I’ve spent the past years not even a hundred miles away, and I haven’t made the trip down here sinceanyone reopen the museum," David told him

They sat at a sidewalk bar on Front Street Sam lifted his beer to David "Glad to hear it And I’m not here to hound or harass you, either I know you didn’t do it"

"Do you?" David asked

Sauess a lot of folks think I’ve followed you down here to pick a fight, beat you to a pulp, so like that"

"Probably"

"My folks knew you didn’t do it I knew you didn’t do it"