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"Entirely"

"You’re sure you’re alone?"

"Yes I’ve just been around the room"

"Stay there I’m on my way"

Ten an’s voice again She opened the door He was dressed, but his hair was askew over his forehead

"What’s wrong?" she asked him

He came into the room As she had previously done, he ?" she persisted

He paused, looking at her in confusion "I don’t know," he finally said "Were you dreaain? Did you see the past? Matt Meyer strangling Rose Langley or…so more contemporary?"

She shook her head She wondered if she should tell him that she’d awakened, certain that someone had been there, that she hadn’t been alone But he seemed so worried about her that she answered carefully

"I’ht I woke up just before you called, but I searched the room and…well, I was the only one here But I wish I’d see more in this room," she told him

He relaxed She s table"

Sheepishly, he smoothed back his hair, then walked over to borrow her brush

"Thank you--for being worried about me," she said, as he shaped his hair into its custouess I’ll let you sleep for another hour or get ready Or whatever"

He didn’t have a chance to leave There was another pounding at Kelsey’s door, followed by Sandy’s anxious voice

"Kelsey?"

She shrugged and hurried to the door Sandy was staring at her with si happen? Are you okay? Oh, Lord! Maybe I should never have bought this place!" Sandy saw Logan, but she obviously wasn’t surprised "Ricky opened the door when he heard Ranger Raintree knocking…I was so afraid soan just wants to inally intended," Kelsey said

"Oh" Sandy let out a sigh of relief "Ricky caarbage disposal, but I’d already fixed it" She grinned engagingly "You learn a lot about simple electrical work and Band-Aid types of repairs when you own a place like this Actually, I didn’t learn that stuff when I was doingan electrician sure helped a lot Anyway, to ot food going, too!"

"That’d be great" Logan turned to Kelsey "Whenever you’re ready," he said

"You two have time for breakfast, don’t you?" Sandy asked

"Of course we do Thanks," Logan replied, san, apparently

"I’ll be down as fast as I can," Kelsey proo ahead?"

When she entered the kitchen, he and Sandy were seated at the table Ricky and several other e up plates for the guests ere filtering down

Sandy looked up, al, when Kelsey walked into the roo her a cup as he hurried by "I’ll bet you need it"

She thanked hi that Sandy had the local paper

"You’re not going to like this," Sandy warned

The headline read Body of Vanessa Johnston Found Where Are Rangers of Yore?

The byline belonged to Ted Murphy

She glanced at Logan, but he see Murphy than he’d been a couple of days earlier

"What a help the little prick is to law enforce her head as she read the article

Murphy hadn’t written anything that wasn’t factual But he also knew that the FBI was involved, that she’d been brought in fro law enforce" experiences--was on the scene He’d researched the small amount of information available on Jackson Crow and his unit, the Krewe of Hunters, and suggested San Antonio should bring in a tea-leaf reader, a medium or an agreed

"It’s so sad, and so scary!" Sandy said

"We just have to do our best to keep details fro the paper "Ricky made cheese blintzes today," he told Kelsey "They’re excellent"

"Sounds good," she said

She wasn’t really even hungry She couldn’t believe that Logan was accepting the newspaper article so coolly She hoped the article--which really couldn’t beto haation

"Yes, you have to have so to rise, but Ricky was already there with a plate for Kelsey

"Sit, eat, relax, both of you We’ve got it covered," he told Kelsey, then Sandy

"Thank you!" Sandy breathed, with Kelsey echoing the words

Sandy waved a hand in the air "He’s such a sweetheart Like he says, he’s gotso hard to accoreed that the host of that documentary can come in here and do a few minutes at the bar It’ll be ahere, and I’ everyone that they don’t have upstairs access--except for the fire escapes--from one-thirty to three-thirty this afternoon I’ll set up a bar in here, but it’s disruptive I don’t kno I let them talk me into this Oh, wait--" she rolled her eyes "--yes, I do They offered uests, and they cream me on all the travel sites, it won’t be worth very much"