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"Sandy, I can’t see you"
"Just jump It’s low…there’s sawdust, oh, please, please, before…"
Sandy’s voice trailed off Desperate, Kelsey angled herself around, gripped the edge of the flooring, dangled for a minute and then let herself drop
She didn’t fall far She landed on a pile of old clothes or bedding and struggled to sit up
A light began to glow and she felt so touch the back of her neck She heard the sound of hoarse, throaty laughter She felt a cale sense not of paralysis, but of almost lazy pleasure, and as her Glock was slipped fro cocktail
"Welcome," came a voice "Noe’ll find the diaan reached the station, he was advised of the strides the team hade women They were dejected when they realized that psychicchic was a hteen-year-old from Nebraska who’d hitchhiked down to Oklahoan said griet a DNA saht have had a round?" he asked
"Pretty much nowhere," Sean told him "Most of the potential suspects went to Texas schools, and no one studied h course in cheh school Our Ted Murphy recently took a course called ‘Street Drugs and Slang for Journalists’ Cowboy Corey did so classes It doesn’t matter about Jeff Chasson anymore, does it?" He paused "Ironically, our latest victim--or likely victi Woman on the Street, Beware’"
As they spoke, there was a tap at the door Logan answered it to find the desk sergeant with a tall, bald ht have stepped out of a Mr Clean commercial
He offered his hand "I’horn just before the murder took place I was fired afterhen the old owner stepped back in and Ms Holly was in a financial an invited hied a chair for hirouped around him
"How could Sierra Monte’s body have been walled in like that, without anyone knowing?" Logan began
"When I heard, I asked uess it wasn’t that hard We’d been working on some pipes and the electricity, so there was fresh drywall and plaster in a lot of areas Frouess even when there’s blood everywhere and a massive search, if there’s no body, there’s no ed a bit, but it’s difficult to prosecute without a body, yes"
"Anyone going into that room would know some work had been done recently--but there’d been work done all over the inn,up to code And the inspectors had been in just a few days before that blood was found, so there seeriave ate my team, but ere already out of there We’d been out since the inspection I orking an old ht you a list of workers here in San Antonio--most of ’em day jobbers--and I also have a blueprint of the place, with the e did, just in case you need it" He reached into his pocket and produced a sheaf of neatly folded papers "My God, that this could happen…"
Logan opened the blueprint He stared at it, but he already knew the inn so well He hadn’t been to the baseinal foundation lines of the old saloon, along with theat a line
"Oh, that There used to be a well out back When city water cah, it wasn’t needed, but there was an old ay that led fro was incorporated into an underground tunnel It alled off for years The old as destroyed and a carriage house stood there at one time Then that was destroyed and a toolshed was put out there, oh, probably sometime back in the early twentieth century"
"I think I’ll do soht," he told Moore "Thank you for bringing this in, and for co to speak with us"
Moore rose and shook hands all around "I’an was planning to head straight out to the Longhorn, but Jane tapped him on the shoulder "You haven’t seen the sketches of the man who may be our culprit"
He sat with her as she showed him the latest sketch she’d made; she’d entered it in the computer so she could alter hair, eyes and facial features at will
There was soe that disturbed hiured out what it was but couldn’t quite pinpoint it
"Since Kelsey spoke with Alice White, who gave ested
He tried Kelsey’s nuot Ricky, who assured hian decided to go there and talk to her before he did any exploring Checking out the property again, with the asistance of Bobby Moore’s blueprint, was a last-ditch effort, but maybe they’d h search of the grounds, not just the house, after Sandy went ave this toolshed much attention"