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"You know hi there, hyperventilating

"Heidi, you don’t need to be here Gavin, can you and Joe take the old corpse back to town and over to the county et a medical exaet Heidi back to the stables? You can use the patrol car to return to the office Looks like I’ll be out here for a few more hours"

Jane nodded "Sure," she said "Heidi?"

But Heidi didn’t seem to hear

"I knew him! I knew him I knew him, oh, God, I knew him!" Heidi cried

Sloan rose and took her by the shoulders "Heidi, calm down" He led her out of the tepee "Who is it?"

"U He stayed at the Old Jail the other night He was alone He came and took the trail ride Alone His nan a foret on one of the horses He was just a tourist, I’et the old corpse back and send out the investigators," Joe said dully

Sloan nodded He was still looking at Heidi "So you took hio I took hiht ride No, wait He went on two trail rides He went during the day and then again at night Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God"

"Heidi, let’s go back to the stables," Jane said She glanced at Sloan, evidently realizing that the biggest help she could offer was taking Heidi off his hands She put an ar to be able to ride?"

"Her horse knows this trail and the way back to the stables better than I knoay around my own house," Sloan said

"Call if you need o, berating himself He’d actually wanted her to be an incouessed that for so

Noas grateful She was a well-trained federal agent She also happened to be a beautiful one

He walked over to where Gavin and Joe had ed to slide a board beneath their century-old on, apparently causing no haret crews out here as fast as we can," Joe promised

"I’ll be here," Sloan said

He watched as they crawled in the wagon and Joe picked up the reins Jane helped Heidi onto her bay, a smoothly and turned to wave to hih he doubted she could hear hiht she said, "See you tonight"

When they were gone, he returned to the area of the tepee Unfortunately, they’d all done a lot of tracking around before they’d realized they had a current murder on their hands

Sloan inspected the area carefully In the end, he decided they hadn’t messed up any tracks or caused the crime scene any real harht be--had been forced to his knees, Sloan surht where he’d knelt The blanket had soaked up most of the blood

Why the hell would anyone take a casual tourist out to the desert and execute him?

"Because, son, he wasn’t a casual tourist," he heard

He turned around Longman except in his own house

Sloan nodded

"I ith you," Longman hadn’t decided to reveal himself to Heidi Poor Heidi would’ve had a heart attack and he ht have had another corpse on his hands

"Thank you," he said He pulled out his phone and called the office, telling Chet to get down to the stables and the Old Jail and find out everything he could about the dead h, he heard the whir of a copter

He closed his eyes and reone to the Old Jail over the stolen wallets

He ree in the air

The skull in the theater basement