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"Because Jake Mallory showed it to me on the screen before I left yesterday"

"But if you’d seen her face,it"

"Maybe"

"But?"

"She said, ‘Too late’ Then the birds seeain Too late, too late, too late"

He watched her as she spoke She never took her eyes from his, and he sensed how hard it was for her to say all this to hiure…I’m a little on the unbalanced side?" she finally asked She tried to smile

He shook his head slowly and offered her a wry smile "I have Apache in ious people Spirits take on the form of humans, and there’s an afterlife, in which everyone lives in happiness and abundance"

"Does that mean you do think it’s possible that the dead speak to us in dreahed suddenly "Well, you already know that I speak to a dead man at the Alamo"

"No, I hadn’t known he was dead until you told me He died at the Alamo?"

"Yes, but not the way you probably think He’d been a courier--he was sent out by Travis during the siege Travis kept sending out letters, because he was desperate for more men Zachary Chase rode out on March 5, and Santa Anna’s troops attacked in full strength before dawn the next ht at San Jacinto--the battle that won independence for Texas He survived it, too, but returned to live in San Antonio He died near the bench where ere sitting, a heart attack "

"So, he’s real I host can be Maybe he can help us?"

"I doubt it"

"Why?"

"If he’d seen anything, he would have told me already"

"You speak to him often?" she asked "Really speak to hi Tara Grissoh," he said He winced a little "Zachary loves to play games He finds it hysterical to make me talk to him when there are people around He loves it when they stare at ood thing to un is a crazy ain "If he didn’t die there, why does he haunt the Alaan replied "He was chosen to ride out the day before His friends and comrades all died, and he didn’t"

"But he risked his own life, riding through eneree And yet if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that’s what’s true to us," he said

He heard his oords

It was certainly true for hiuilty! he told hiht him in, and he sat on death row And Alana died because of it

Rory Norton had viciously killed at least a dozen people He’d shot anyone who had gone against him, and if he hadn’t carried out the murder himself, he’d ordered it He’d also been responsible for dozens of other deaths with the hardcore drugs he’d supplied

If Logan hadn’t been so deterer or another law enforceuilt all the way to the grave," Kelsey said "That’s so sad" She stood suddenly "We have to go and speak with hi to a ghost? Kelsey, there are going to be tourists all over right now!"

He realized he’d just called her by her given name for the first time She hadn’t even noticed

"Yes, but we need to find out what your friend knows"

"He’s not actually what you’d call a friend," Logan said

"Why not?"

"He’s a ghost"

"But he was living, and heto talk to you yesterday when you were so rude!"

"I wasn’t rude He wanted to make me look foolish in front of you, and I didn’t appreciate it"

"Logan, he was trying to speak to you," she insisted

"He would’ve told ain

"You didn’t learn about this last disappearance until yesterday"

"That’s true, but if Zachary had seen a woman in distress, he would have mentioned it"