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"Pardon?"

"Nothing, just thinking out loud," she said "It’s hardly a goodjoke when you consider that the skull once belonged to so"

"Maybe after so many years that didn’t ?"

"We did investigate," Sloan replied "Like I said, we dusted for prints We checked out the baseh search We wanted to make sure there were no more bones down there But whoever messed around with the skull wiped it clean, and prints in the baseoes down there fro, but there are boxes of fabric, costu the cast, crew and staff, there wasn’t all that far we could go Everyone here denied ever seeing the skull before"

"I guess you’re at a dead end, if you’ll forgive the pun And I understand that Henri Coque ht want to knoho put the skull there"

"Everyone--other than the person who put it there, of course--wants to knoho did it Who the trickster, as you called hiht have been"

"Souess"

Sloan frowned at her "I’roup usually deal with felonies, serial killers, major crime?"

"Yes"

"So how could he spare you?"

"I’ major occurs, he’ll call me back in Frankly, I’m surprised myself You don’t want an"

"I thought I explained that," he said, a little testily "I know Logan I trust hio with a professional sent by sole!" she teased

"Not at all Henri is a politician, I’ht" He hesitated "Henri wanted to call in a local artist who does landscapes, caricatures and the like When I suggested calling a friend who could recoitimate forensic artist, we came to a compromise"

"Ah," she said

"So, I wound up with a an’s own Krewe"

"So you did"

He didn’t offer an opinion as to whether that hat he’d wanted or not He knew Logan, so he had to know souessed as ot Questions like "Aren’t you known as the bureau’s ‘ghost-busters’?" Or "Shouldn’t you be off chasing ghosts sohost do it? Or was it the butler? Or the butler’s ghost? Ha-ha!"

Yes, he had to realize that Krewe units were considered "special" or "specific"

But he didn’t ask her another question Liz arrived with hison their food After a while, the silence greard, even though there seemed to be an expectant quality in the very air between them He was definitely way too attractive, and the sexual draw she felt toward him made her uneasy

Jane felt that she had to speak "You were close to Logan?" she asked

"Logan didn’t tell you anything about me?"

"Just that you were a friend he knew froave me a short brief on the situation, on the Gilded Lily and the town"

"We worked well together I ith the police force in Houston He was a Ranger, which, of course, you know Weforces to capture a spree killer as h the state," Sloan told her "That was before Logan joined the bureau But I take it you worked with hiency I was brought in whenever a forensic artist was needed"