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"I’uess I’ll check out the Dragonslayer"

Malachi watched him leave As he did, an elevator door down the hall opened and Kat stepped off She tried to keep the doors froized to Roger, who , pushed the call button and stood there, waiting

Kat caht?" she asked Malachi

Malachi nodded, still watching Roger "I think Helen’s had all the visitors she can handle for the day," he said

"She has visitors in there now?"

"Jack and Blake--the pirate actors she works with on the Black Swan"

"Ah You let them in on purpose, I take it"

"I did"

"Suspects?"

"I don’t think so I think they’re just friends No ulterior et the nurse to shoo theuy and a major help His na with Bruno, another nurse Jackson found here--and one who fits his naer, who continued to wait by the elevator "Leave it to Jackson Crow," he said, and s on board the Black Swan?" he asked

"No, but he got along famously with Dirk," Kat said "And with his buddies, Bootsie and Aldous"

"Is he back at the house on Chippe?"

"Spelling Angela on the calish," Malachi said

"You think Roger is responsible for all this?" Kat asked "Isn’t he the one who’s going crazy looking for Bianca?"

"Yes and no I don’t believe he’s a killer But he’d be interesting to watch He’s in love And he knows the city He ht be a haven for the killer Heto share He doesn’t feel any of us wants to find Bianca Salzburg with the same desperation he does"

Kat pulled out her phone Malachi waited while she put through the call to Will, who proer Kat spoke for anotherup

"Jackson was about to call you He’s at a place near the river called the Wulf and Whistle It’s by that alley you told hio there as soon as you can," she said

"We’re on it" Malachi paused "Kat, what do you think the killer is using to hack off fingers?"

"A very sharp object, one with so like an old pirate’s boarding ax?"

"Could be," Kat said

"Thanks"

Kat reached for the door to Helen Long’s room "I’ll send Abby out--and sic Byron on our visitors"

Soon after, Abby joined hier we’d talked to her and that she’d given us everything that she could I warned him not to push her"

"I know Come on Jackson asked us to meet him at the Wulf and Whistle"

"It’s in front of the alley our ghosts pointed out to us this " Abby hesitated "Malachi, what do you think she heard--aside froht’ve heard the entertainment from any of the tourist boats But the sound she heard, like a beat She didn’t say it was dru like that"

Tap, tap, tap

He didn’t know, but he felt he should It was there, hidden somewhere in the back of his mind

The Wulf and Whistle was in one of Savannah’s historic buildings; it had gone up about ten years before the yellow fever epidemic Abby had been inside roup; as good for the city was good for everyone, and Gus had been close with the people he saw as his colleagues rather than coht now, the restaurant and bar ned by Saer, however, was Steve Rugby, a man in his mid-forties who ran the place with friendly ease Abby had always liked Steve and the Wulf and Whistle

When the building had first gone up, it had been a tavern with apartments above it