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"A US Marshal," she corrected hiroaned He was right about Corey’s frontier mentality

They reached the Alamo and claimed "their" bench, the place Zachary Chase would expect to find theht away, of course, and they studied the flow of people around the historic shrine, speaking softly about the case as they waited

"The actors at the studio seemed wonderful," Kelsey said "Of course, we’ve only met a fraction of the people involved When Sean was out on location, there were hundreds of extras at a time"

"Yes, but some of those people live out there"

"There still have to be other people working here, in San Antonio, if they’re doing more scenes at the studio I mean, they just about have to include the faht or leave He draws a line in the sand, and Jah he can’t stand And there have to be scenes between Santa Anna and the women and children he spared, and Joe, Travis’s slave"

He nodded and leaned his head back, catching the last rays of the dying sun

"And we’re taking the word of a ghost that we’re looking for a man in costume," he said"

"You doubt Zachary?" Kelsey asked, a little horrified

"Not in the least But could you begin to explain that to anyone else?"

"No," she said "So, we met some nice actors today Except for Jeff Chasson, and he’s an idiot"

"I can’t disagree But being an idiot doesn’t --or can pretend to be--make hiht up when he talked about Sierra Monte? It gave me chills," Kelsey said

"He’s creepy, but that still doesn’t htened "Here co toward the himself as he moved past others who had no idea he was even there Sometimes people would pause and look around, as if they felt a strange stirring or the whisper of a chill Maybe they were really feeling the past and the sacred sorrow of the ground on which they walked

ZacharyKelsey, then took the seat between her and Logan

"I have kept h the day and through the night," he assured the is good," Logan said "We’re afraid that another young wo to be kidnapped and killed We don’t knohy this ht have to do with Rose Langley and the Galveston diamond"

Zachary Chase frowned "The Galveston diaht I always heard it had existed, but that in the scuffle--when Matt Meyers took Rose Langley--it was lost in the sand"

"I believe Rose brought it here," Kelsey said

"That’s interesting, that she ht have held on to it" Zachary spoke very quietly

"You knew Rose, didn’t you?" Logan asked hi wistful in his eyes "I wish…I wish I had been braver That I had been a better ently "You must have been a very brave azing down at his hands Then he raised his eyes, a rueful expression on his face "You have to reht it would take hian--well, we still thought the provisional govern at the Alahorn often I was in love with Rose," he adan repeated, and Kelsey realized that this was souessed

"She was beautiful, and no matter as done to her, she was so sweet and refined I wanted to take her aith ht Go so," Kelsey said

"I could’ve made my move I could have slipped aith her and we could have ridden east, ridden as hard as the wind, and escaped But Rose was afraid for me He’d nearly killed her man, Taylor, back in Galveston, and she’d seen hiaet the hell out of Texas But Rose would tell me no, she wouldn’t risk my life, and God help me, there was cowardice in me, because I didn’t insist"

"How curious," Kelsey murmured "Because, as I said, I believe she did have the diaive it to Matt Meyer"

"What makes you so certain?" Zachary asked