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"We’re investigating," Sloan said He walked through to the bar "But a man has to eat"

As he came up next to Alice, Jane noted that she wasn’t the only woh of an actress to behave casually, but Jane got a glimpse of her eyes

"Salami?" Alice asked him "Oh, Jane, how about you?"

"Salami Do you have cheese, to

"I’ll eat anything," Jane assured Alice

Alice plopped paper plates and the various s on the bar

"We can do an assembly line if you want," Jane offered "Make lunch for all of us"

"Great," Alice said "I’ll throw some bottles of water up here and we’lldown, maybe someone else" She seemed pleased that Jane took a seat at the bar while she stood behind it with Sloan They got a syste--Jane put out the bread and spread the mayo, Sloan added the meat and cheese, and Alice finished up with lettuce and tooing on this afternoon?" Sloan asked "Rehearsal for the shows?"

"Rehearsal? Today?" Alice said, shaking her head and rolling her eyes "Oh, yeah But not for the show We’re going to take our act out on the street for a trial run with the locals"

"Your act?" Jane echoed

"Tos," she said "Actually, I e crowds By the weekend, Silverfest will be crazy There’ll be ‘settlers’ selling all kinds of things--so, weapons, belts, buckles, dresses, plus corn cakes, barbecue and beans Oh, yes, and silver jewelry, of course Turquoise A lot of Native A on the roles of old settlers" She paused to grin ets in on it He plays Trey Hardy sometimes"

"I always had a soft spot for Hardy," Sloan admitted

"What’s that deal?" Jane asked "I’ve heard about him from Heidi He was sort of a Robin Hood character, wasn’t he?"

"Hardy had been a lieutenant in the Confederate cavalry," Alice explained "He held up trains and stagecoaches, but he’d give to whoever needed it--whites, newly freed slaves, Native Aht by our local sheriff, Brendan Fogerty, who see hie back then, and--do you know this part of the story?"

"Soht face his charges and get off--since no one would act as a witness against hi about Hardy When he was on duty alone, he shot Hardy in his cell Pued rat Well, soed out onto Main Street and lynched by the crowd It was sad all the way around"

"I re that," Jane said

"Hardy haunts the jail, Munson haunts Main Street," Sloan said

"Hey, I don’t go to the Old Jail alone, and I don’t hang around the street at night, either," Alice said soleecoach disappeared?" Jane asked

"About a e time for Lily," Alice said "First, Hardy’s shot down, then Munson is lynched--and four weeks later, Sage McCor with Red Marston"

"They disappeared on the sa to local legend," Sloan said

Alice srand to everything I’ve read, she was a brilliant actress She could go from comedy to drama in the blink of an eye They said her perforhest coeep"

"Well, I don’t think she did run off with Marston," Sloan said

"Really?" Alice looked at Sloan and then Jane "Did you finish with the skull? Do you think it belonged to Sage McCormick?"

"It’s possible I haven’t finished, but I have done a two-die" She glanced reproachfully at Sloan Apparently ht have shared with her froo

Alice shivered "So,the theater But if she was murdered, who killed her?"

"Who killed who?" Valerie Mystro asked They all turned around as they heard her voice; she was coht have been Sage McCormick’s"