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He glanced over at her "You still going to dress up as Sage to to dress up as Trey Hardy, right?"

He s up as Trey Hardy isn’t all that difficult I wear a plumed hat and an old Confederate cavalry jacket You, however, will have to walk around in a Victorian dress"

"I can handle it for a day," she said "But seriously, should I keep working with the skull--sorry, your great-great grand on it And theto clean up the skull of the old corpse we found It would be good to learn who he was before we bury hiain And the ht have to do with soold that disappeared in the 1870s Hmm" He slowed the car as they ca"

And it was People were crowding the street The saloon was overflowing, and although it was al in and out of Desert Diaarb

"I’ll see you at the station to that he meant to stop the car and open her door "I’ll be fine"

He nodded and watched her go

Jane hurried through the busy downstairs of the theater and up to her roo the door behind her "Hey," she said quietly "I hope you’re feeling better We do know the truth, and we’ll bury you properly," she pro bad I said about your great-great grandson In fact, I think I’e didn’t respond But later that night, when Jane started feeling chilly in the air-conditioning, she was suddenly warht have been a great actress, stealingthat she’d been a very tenderwhen Sloan’s cell phone rang

He woke iht have happened at the theater

Grabbing the phone he noted the caller ID Liam Newsome

"We found the rental car, Sheriff Want to hway?"

"You bet Where are you?"

Newsoave him the coordinates, and Sloan told hiot ready quickly, but before heading out, he went to his at-hoht have caught sounds fro yesterday He listened, but nothing registered

So in the old mine What? If he knew that, he was certain he could solve thehiht away if he heard anything

When he arrived at the site of the car, he wasn’t surprised it had taken so long to find It was alically placed behind and to the side of a hillock of grassy shrub and brush, now covered by desert sand and blended into the landscape

A tow truck fro it in for forensics, but Newsome had halted the recovery until Sloan could reach the scene

"Thought you’d want to see where it was," Newsome said

Sloan nodded "Thanks I doubt Jay Berman parked it here," he said drily, "which leads me to believe that two people were probably involved in his murder Someone had to drive the car here, and since we’re miles from anywhere, whoever drove it must have had someone co," Newsoets me is that there has to be a reason You only see this kind of thing when gangs, s are involved"

"Unless it was made to look like a mob hit In a real hit, the body would usually be found in a scrap yard or such--not in the desert with another deadelse? He did coles," Sloan told hi the area where the body was found"

"Cri inside the car?" he asked

Newsome walked him over to it; the doors and the trunk were open The trunk was elove compartment stood open and Sloan asked Newsome what they’d found in it

"Maps Maps of the county--andCopy of a et it scanned and over to your office as soon as I’m back in ht?"

"Yes"

"We’ll have the skull of the dug-up corpse ready by this afternoon Soot a lot on your plate, ith Silverfest, but the ht as well send it over"