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"Oh, yeah But it would have been easier to hit the folks we know--and whose work and work ethic we know," David said

"Everyone has to start soo to work," Katie said "I’ on both of you if it’s a dead crowd," she added

Vanessa sroup number!" Katie said

There were about twenty people in the bar when Katie started up, singing a number with a friend of hers, Clarinda, as also one of the night servers at O’Hara’s The two sang a country number that was beautiful and sexy By the ti in the door

"I don’t think that she’s going to have any proble up," Vanessa told David

"Probably not We’re off the hook Oh, and she’s trying to get Clarinda to get up enough confidence to take it over when she’s not here," David said

"Oh?"

David s on this excursion without Katie, do you?"

Vanessa smiled "So it’s a done deal?" she asked

"It seems to be so," David told her "I heard about your dive today--and that you ht have discovered a relic of some kind"

"Hopefully And hopefully, it is a real relic, and not a watch lost recently that encrusted quickly," Vanessa said

"I don’t think so," David said, "Sean has a good eye for things like that The sea can play ga down here has found so lost from a boat from some period of time--he’d probably know if it was just a twenty-year-old barnacle crustation"

"I found it awfully easily"

"The current is always ," David reminded her

She faced the doorhere, in ones, twos and threes, others were now co into the bar She saw Marty and he waved to her as he headed up to Katie and her coood, Marty is here We’ll be getting a good sea shanty," David said

She sain

She stiffened where she sat at the stool, dead straight

She didn’t believe it, didn’t believe that she was seeing thefor someone

Her

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Sean arrived at his uncle’s bar around nine-thirty Katie-oke was in full swing

He saw David at one of the high-top tables in the rear of the karaoke area and came to sit by him at one of the free bar stools There was one left; Bartholoether like any friends out for a drink together

David acknowledged Bartholomew’s presence with a nod He could hear Bartholomew at times and see his faint outline at certain times, too Sean didn’t think that David had any kind of a sixth sense, but Bartholomew had become so entwined in the events that had nearly cost all of them their lives that David did have a sense of him It was often a relief for Sean to be with his sister and David, who knew about Bartholooaded hiinary friend

"Liam here yet?" he asked

"Not yet But I talked to him after you did Seems he’s in on this one way or the other," David said

"Which is great--having a skilled cop with us cannot be bad," Sean said

"You really think that we ht have trouble?" David asked

"Two people werethe film I think that the only rational explanation is that Carlos Roca was the killer, and that he’s out there soot aith ood boat I don’t think he’d co, such as idiot drug slers, huood to have a cop along We can watch each other’s backs Yeah, I like that," Sean said

"The pickings seeed They had talked to a couple of "possible people" He wished he could have Frazier, froraphic project There were other friends he’d known for years and years Of course, they could delay the project But now, he didn’t want to

"We’ll be all right," David said "You know Katie is cohts, sound…caot into it, and we’ve been out doing so on the reefs since we decided to do this"