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"I don’t know Do you ever worry about the horses when they’re out in the pasture? I’m sure you don’t notice all of the stolen? Could one be stolen?"

"We’ve never had any horses stolen," Sydney replied "I guess all the ones we have now are known by people in the area, but we’ve also brought in rescues Soerous--unless you knew the horse, knew the problem and the aniot her But the first thing we teach anyone who co distance behind a horse Any horse"

"Should we be worried?" Drew asked

"No, no," Dustin assured the that But could someone, say, use a horse and put it back in the pasture without anyone noticing?"

Drew looked at Sydney; Sydney looked back at Drew

Then both ed

"What does all this mean? Does it matter?" Drew asked worriedly

"I’uys" He left Chapparal with thebehind Jane Everett at the door, waiting for the?" Sloan asked as they entered and shut the door behind theht to the coffeepot, Saeneral," Olivia said She poured her coffee and sipped it

"And?"

"He didn’t see a face, but he did see so from the ravine when Marcus was killed"

"And he saw a horse," Dustin filled in for her

"Which horse?"

"Gargantua," Olivia said

"Gargantua--the massive horse, I take it?" Jane asked

Olivia nodded

Dustin turned to Olivia "Could he just have disappeared from a pasture and reappeared? Drew and Sydney didn’t seeuess it’s possible," she said "You see and do things every day and you don’t really pay s We often keep the horses in the pastures, and we’ve never had to worry about the around the fences Soet here every , at least some of the brushed for a session or saddled for a ride They’re always in their stalls at night, but during the day" She shrugged "Honestly, you’d have to ask me to count them Otherwise, I’d assume they were all where they’re supposed to be"

"So, it is possible souess so," Olivia said unhappily

"Anything else?" Sloan asked

"We found one of our horse-shaped thu that ht it from here--and probably came froe," Jane said She sat on the sofa with her laptop and opened it "Five weekends ago, there was an art show at the Opryland Mall in Nashville It was kind of a big deal They had na there, as well as a contest for artists to create props for haunted houses" She turned her coauze cloth, with the watercolor and chalk i e stood beside hi him an award "The kid on is a senior at Vanderbilt His ill go into a haunted house being set up in an old farrant of five thousand"

"Have you contacted him?" Dustin asked

Jane nodded "His name is Simon Latinsky and you can visit him this afternoon He rents a roo you anytiinal, the one we’re seeing in this picture, is already in the haunted house But he did a few practice runs, which he sold"

Dustin looked at Olivia,artist?"

"Okay with me," she murmured

"Meanwhile, I’ll spend some time with Sydney and Drew," Malachi said "See if I can find out anything else"

"Maybe one of you could drop by the café," Dustin suggested "Delilah is a veritable fount of inforo there Oh, if you run into Coot, say hi"

"I’ to check up on the whereabouts of your fellow therapists, Mason and Mariah--and I’ll stop by and introduce rimace "I’ve already talked to her on the phone a few ti to the last will Aaron Bentley wrote, you’re his executor And Sandra wants to plan the funeral Oh, by the way--she quits"

Olivia groaned "Another funeraland I’m not surprised she wants to handle it All she had to do was talk to ements"