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"Make certain to keep them comfortable," Remy said "We don' want them to think we suspect them of the murders We want them thinkin' we just want to question them because they were one of the last to see him alive"

"And Robert?"

Remy shook his head "We'll wait for Drake and then question hi in Tom Berlander and Brent Underwood as well, but put them all in separate rooms I don' want them coht in the sith Cooper and the Rousseau brothers"

"Are you goin' to find Robert?" Gage asked

Reets back I don' want hi he was here at the crime scene and he didn't even call it in"

"We're tryin' to find out who did," Gage said

"Probably Dion Robert would have gone runnin' for his brother to fix his mess That's what he's always done"

"He's gotten so e pointed out "I'ht he'd someday wind up with her"

Reun, almost a reflex action He didn't even realize he'd done it until he felt the faun in his palrowin' to do before he can be with one of our women"

Gage hesitated, and then he spoke in a rush "You've got to make certain that these killin's aren't in any way connected to Bijou"

Remy scowled at his brother "What the hell are you talkin' about? Bijou ith ht There is no possible way"

Gage held up his hand to cut off his brother's rising temper "Damn, Remy, sometimes you're as mean as a damned snake I don' think Bijou killed anyone, but she was there at the first scene with Saria and now this one You just have to make certain there's no connection"

"There was no connection to the first four o," Remy snapped

"Don' bite o She came back for her father's funeral I'm just sayin' you're too close to this with her and aren't considerin' even the remote possibility Just to be safe Maybe she knew the other victims"

Renore any possibility, no matter how crazy it sounded "Maybe, but she would have said"

"Four years ago, she wasn't thinkin' about htailed it out of here the ht not have even known there was a murderer carvin' people up"

Remy nodded He didn't want to question Bijou about the murders or any of the victims He'd already blown it with her soet it in her head to take off She had enough o anywhere in the world and if she wanted to disappear, he had no doubt that she could make it happen

"It's a long shot, but I'll ask Right now, let's concentrate on the Rousseau brothers and their friends I'd also like to know the whereabouts of Rob Butterfield, her ht If they don' have a good alibi, I'll be wantin' to talk to thee" Remy waited until his brother turned back to face him "If they alibi each other, and no one else can corroborate, that doesn't count as a decent alibi"

Gage sighed "I was hopin' this would never happen again Especially on our turf"

"I'e," Reh when his victims were nothin' but h the butcherin' of Cooper alive Nothin' else changed His hands weren't shakin' He didn't leave prints or any other evidence behind But he knew Cooper And he had soainst him"

"Or maybe Cooper decided he didn't like bein' told to break into old folks' hooin' to start talkin' to us," Gage suggested

"Or he was drunk and was talkin' sht about the Rousseau brothers, they'd take action"

"Or kill hiested