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"If that’s so," Ruth said, "everything we’re seeing here could be a ruse, too, to cover his flight He didn’t give us the chance to serve hi her head "I saw his uitars He wouldn’t do that No, someone else did this"

Dix said, "Either way, Salazar is finished here I doubt even his adoring students are going to clean this up for him"

Griffin said, "Has anyone spoken to Dr Hayman?"

Dix said, "After we searched I phoned him, asked him if he’d seen his brother He said he hadn’t and that he orried, since they were to have had coffee together thison I told him only that his brother wasn’t here and his house was trashed He was understandably very upset, but he said he couldn’t iine ould do this I told him ould find his brother and left it at that" Dix paused a moment, then added, "I’ about any of this or his twin’s cri his head "Two brothers, adether, but how could one not knohat the other is?"

The Hoover Building

Washington, DC

Late Tuesday

Savichin forty h snow started to fall like a thin white veil as he drove The forecasters had threatened lad to beat the worst of it Ollie met him when he stepped into the CAU

"Did you question Mr Sleeson?"

Ollie nodded "A retired gent with a beard down to his navel, really pissed, since he’d reported his precious SUV stolen on Sunday evening and hadn’t heard a word until I called him

"Unfortunately, he wasn’t any help, didn’t see who took it, didn’t hear a thing You should know Delsey’s hoppingkept prisoner in your house and it’s not fair She’d have come with me to Maryland to talk with Mr Sleeson if I’d let her But not to worry Coop had her under control when I left Oh, yes, she tried to call her brother to coht call you, but I think Coop will talk her out of it, get her going with his jokes"

"Thanks, Ollie What else we got?"

"Melissa Ivy has arrived She’s in the interview roolad he was available If he asks, tell hi important to take care of"

Savich went into his office and studied MAX’s screen He s

"Noble here"

"Dix, Savich I think we’re in business Here’s what MAX found There’s a thousand-acre parcel of hilly, undeveloped, essentially worthless land outside of Maestro It was sold by a Mr Weaver last summer for more than it orth to a land trust Not unusual so far, but MAX found the trust had no other dos, and ned by an SFB Industries, which appears to be a front company owned by yet another corporation, American Colonial Trust, incorporated in the Cayet murky here, but MAX found a welter of front companies owned by AZT One of theation for ties to the Lozano crime family, Salazar’s fao, Savich If it was Weaver’s, I know the parcel and so do you There’s a limestone cave on it Remember Winkel’s Cave and our hairy adventures?"

Not pleasant ht "Winkel’s Cave--there’s both a front and a back entrance on Lone Tree Hill And the cave’s big, certainly big enough to house drugs and gang o so out that way, only an unused road in ruins and rough terrain This is it, Savich, this has got to be it I want you to buy MAX a beer"

Savich paused "You guys be careful, Dix These MS-13 gang erous"

"I know," Dix said "Yes, I know We will"

Savich was about to leave his office when Judy Garland sang out "Somewhere over the Rainbow" He looked down at caller ID Bo Horsley He didn’t have ti to tell me more about the Jewel of the Lion exhibit?"