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"But perhaps you have done injury to yourself, causing illusions"

"I a illusions"

"Come We will retrace what happened"

They left the trattoria and walked back to the church Manetti had brought other officers with hihts now illuminated dark corners The place did not appear sinister at all Artas gone fro above the s here," Jordan one now, too," Manetti said

Jordan threw up her hands "You have no intention of believing a thing I say, or really checking into the h "You’ll notice I have six officers in here Ito the airport when I discovered that Mrs Henley was not at her palazzo Noe have looked and lookedbut as you see, there is nothing but dust" Jordan strode angrily to the altar She wiped her hands over it "As you’ll note, there is no dust here!"

"And the one thing , Miss Riley Someone has probably slept on the altar With so ners in Venice, this place was probably used as a shelter" At thatshe could say or do that would convince this man that she had really seen Tiff Henley dead

And decapitated

"I nearly married a police officer?as you knoould never play tricks on law enforcerily

"I know that you would not"

"Then?"

"I’h a call to your hotel, but your cousin and his wife seem to be out"

She needed help Mental help That’s what he was trying to tell her

"Whereas Carnevale is healthy fun for most people, perhaps it has not been the wisest tiested softly

She stared at hi I don’t trust my cousin at all anymore, sad but true You doubt my every word And now, the man who has made nor Wulfsson after I saw the body Find hi hi you"

"Fine We’ll watch for the man Now, there is little else you can do here I think you should go to the hospital, since we cannot reach your relatives?"

"No," she ined o back to my hotel, and stay in my room for a while" She was certain of what she had seen, and of what had happened And that she was personally in danger here "Please don’t trouble yourselves too et hold of my cousin and his wife, pleaseplease tell them that I’ll meet theood tiet in without a reservation"

"Miss Riley, I’ht be in your best interest to cut your visit to Venice short, and go hoht," she told hiements can be made in the next few days"

"We’ll see you to the hotel," Manetti said

"I can walk Jordan back?" Raphael offered

"We’ll see her back," Manetti said firmly

"That is kind of you, Officer Manetti," she said "Especially since we must surely stop by the station first"

Manetti frowned "The station?"

"I want to file a report I mean, just in case any of this proves to be real in the future, surely you’ll hat happened tonight in your records"

"Of course, of course," Manetti murmured

"Raphael, I’d appreciate very much if you’d come as well" She stared at Manetti She wanted her words recorded as she said them?she trusted Raphael to see that her account of what happened went down correctly on paper

A police launch took them to the station She sat with an unknown officer at a desk, ignoring his looks when his eyes fell upon her skeptically as he typed the words Raphael translated for her Manetti looked on As she was nearing the end of her story, there was a commotion at the front of the station Manetti excused himself Jordan finished, Raphael read the paper, nodded at her gravely, and she signed the typed police report

"Let’s go," she murmured to Raphael

He nodded, but as they started to slip out the entry, they saw that Manetti was in deep conversation with a young wo to cal on?" Jordan asked

"The woondolier who died She is angry with Manetti, who is telling her what the autopsy report said?that her brother’s body was led by the sea and sharks and other creatures, but that it still appeared he died fro into the stonework of a low bridge She says that he did not, that he was ht?he was murdered," Jordan ht" Jordan sighed "Doesn’t Manetti think it’s a little bit suspicious? The risly death himself?" Raphael watched her for a ht now if you bring that up"

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