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"Thanks," Salumly

"No proble that you should know"

"Spit it out, Jake!" Jenna warned

"Be nice, Miss Duffy! All right, your two prospective buyers are in business together"

"What?" Sa at Jenna with disbelief

"Oh, yeah There’s a lot of ‘doing business as’ going on in both of their lives, but Andy Yates and Saether One of his coic Mada service--I think Magic Mada corporation soia Sorry, never mind Anyway, seems like the money to start up came from Yates He’s the investor and she’s the workforce"

"Well, Andy Yates did say that he knew her and that she was an impressive woman," Sam said drily

"Well, she is iela said

"Ah, think about it," Salanced at him "You mean someone with a repressed hos to be supermom and probably has no ti," Sam said

"Jake, you’re brilliant!" Jenna said

"I’m even more brilliant I looked up the school’s football team And I can tell you this On the afternoon that Peter Andres was killed, Councilman Yates and his son were at one of the school’s major football matches--in Revere There’s a newspaper picture of the councilainst Lynn, Mass I tried all the tia with Dad, celebrated at a restaurant in Peabody that evening That accounts for daddy Yates, baby boy Yates and even Joshua Abbott for at least ten hours, and, according to the medical report, Peter Andres was killed between two in the afternoon and six in the evening"

Jenna looked at Sam, who appeared frustrated "Thanks, Jake, you’re still brilliant, you know, despite that"

"Well, thank you there, Miss Duffy I’ House"

"Jake," Sam said, "what I’d like you to find out is if you can cross-reference members with people who have children in the school We’ll be heading there too in to question the kids and drama department"

"I’ll be on it Should haveup, Salanced around "I wish he was my researcher"

Jenna smiled "Jake’s the best," she said Herhat the researcher had told them She didn’t want to share her suspicion yet, not until she had done a little sleuthing on her own With Sam, despite the fact that he seemed to have accepted her and the others, she wanted facts "So, Sao froers on the table "I say it’s time to pay another visit to Mada the Covington murder and the Sain Obviously she knows much more than she’s shared so far We could try to catch up with the councilman, but it’s Sunday, and I bet Mrs Yates won’t let him let any of us near hio to church," Angela suggested

They all looked at her

"Well," she said "No one knows roup, I’ela," Jenna said She didn’t really want to go, but she wanted towith him She needed to do what she wanted to do on her own, at first She had a hunch, and if her hunch was right, the criht prove it

"No, toowith ela yet, so she could go," Sam said "Except, of course, I think you’ve all had your pictures in national nize ela, you head to church," Jackson said

"What about Joshua Abbott?" Jenna asked "He was one of the people wearing the horned god costuet to Joshua tomorrow at school," Sam said

"You could try to speak with him today--his mother never threatened you," Jenna pointed out

"Ouch!" Saet that in today, too If not, I’ll have John Alden make sure he breaks up the two--David Yates and Joshua Abbott--to the Call it a hunch"

"A hunch, huh?" Jackson said, set to the rest of the Abbott fae’s son," Sarief, especially since none of us can do so now in an official capacity This evening, ive me any help with that He’s convinced it was an accident that killed Milton Sedge But I don’t want to sit around, either, and e kno, I think that Madam Samantha could answer a few more questions" He looked at Jackson "Madae to her, and she seeo to see if we can’t get in for rinned at Jenna "No offense--you’re not her type"