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She had a look of terror on her face and she waved an ar to turn around

Jane started to do so She felt a whoosh of air and briefly saw the twisted face of aa pork pie hat, lips pulled back over teeth that were bared and yellow

It see hard and heavy against her head

She crashed down on Jennie’s prone body

Jane didn’t answer her cell phone when Sloan called That worried him instantly; someone like Jane would always have her phone handy, ready for any e Main Street, and asked hiht now," Chet said, "but, boy, did I see her earlier! She got into the action on the street She was great! She was funny, and she switched the whole scene They didn’t have the shoot-out She turned it into a totally different scene, with the girls fro it up She’s a natural!"

"Chet, I’lad to hear that, but I need to speak with her now"

"Sure I’ll look for her Want me to call you back?"

"No, I want you to stay on the line until you find her"

Sloan sat on a chunk of rock that had fallen to the floor when they’d caved in the shaft entrance He glanced over at the body beneath the tarp, hisHe’d already called Liam Newsome; he and his crime team and the medical examiner were on their way Sloan rued the fact that there were no real roads back here and nothing was easy once you were this far into the desert

"What’s happening now?" Johnny asked him as time ticked by

"Chet asked Henri Coque where Jane went Henri said she’s looking for Jennie and he hasn’t seen either of them since"

Sloan turned his attention back to Chet "Where’s she looking?"

"In the theater"

"Well, get in there and find her!" Sloan said

He waited; Chet eventually came back on the line "I’ve been to her rooe, back of the bar, in the kitchen She’s not here, Sloan"

Sloan cursed and stood "I’ for her, Chet I mean everyone Tear the town apart"

"We’re needed here," Chet argued "We’ve got a town full of people and so drunk and a little rowdy--"

"Find her," he broke in "Everyone on it We’ve just come across another victim"

"Who--"

"Just find her, Chet Now," Sloan ordered

He hung up, feeling so frantic he was ready to crash through the rock walls

"I will deal with Newsome," Johnny said "I will tell hiht beon in here, like you said when you called hi

He cursed himself He had known there was illicit activity in the

He hadn’t expected this

He paused, glancing down at the body they’d discovered It was that of Caleb Hough, the big-shot, biget aith everything Sloan hadn’t liked the man But he wasn’t happy to see him come to this

He lay in a pool of blood He hadn’t been shot execution-style It appeared that he’d taken a knife wound to the gut, and when he’d doubled over, stunned by the attack, a second person had gotten hi his throat with such force that he’d almost been decapitated

"Go," Johnny told hi out the way he’d coa that she had to wait for Johnny People said horses didn’t really understand comht that his ania whinnied and stayed as he had corass and, for a moment, Sloan wished he was a horse

The trail back seeument with hiet his patrol car?

He opted for the car

When he reached the theater, he found that whether Chet agreed with his command or not, he’d carried it out The cast, creaiters, waitresses and everyone involved with the theater see it inch by inch He’d met up with one of the countythe campsites, settler tents, saloon and stores

Sloan went back to Jane’s roo to discern if she’d been there recently and if she’d left anything that ive hi seee, standing by the