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"Why did she visit Trey Hardy in his cell?" Jane asked

"The sae was a charht’ve seen each other as kindred spirits I gather that e"

"So why kill Red? If we’re right about that"

"I think both Sage and Red were killed because they knew too much--just like I think Zoe and Jiht they knew too much And I’m convinced that Jay Berman came here because someone he kneas in on the situation, and that he was ht he’d spilled the beans"

Jane poured herself a cup of coffee and sat down across froold, ould these old lost over a hundred years ago"

"I don’t know," Sloan said, sounding frustrated "I’old, since it was stolen, but there’d have to be an enormous finder’s fee Maybe the people involved have no intention of handing it over to the state And everyone’s always assuecoach never h to ecoach disappear in the desert The horses were probably let loose and could have been adopted by Apaches in the area This book--the one by Brendan Fogerty--suggests the driver and guards were old was hidden somewhere, secreted away"

"What would the silver ain, I don’t know--unless it was being used as soo out of action until long after the stagecoach disappeared"

"So you really think this is about gold?"

"I can’t figure out anything else It’s al up the corpses fro to someone who’s involved One of the conspirators, if you will That’s why I’reean says he’ll rent a car in Tucson He and Kelsey will be in town sometime in the s I’ll ask Johnny Bearclaw to bring that water bottle you found in the et a DNA hit off it, and that could at least send us in the right direction" He shook his head "I should’ve done that right away But noant to get to town and question everyone at the theater about the live rounds in that gun--and when they last saw Caleb Hough"

"I’ll get dressed," Jane said "And the bottle is tied to the saddle I was using" She shrugged

"Good I’ll let Johnny know," Sloan told her

Twenty minutes later, they were on their way back to town

As they drove, she flipped through the books Sloan had gotten at Desert Diamonds Both ritten and did an excellent job of recreating the past; it was still the wild, est Everyone carried a gun Ladies were ladies, whores hores--and actresses were looked on as little better than whores, though a woe McCormick would be admired, desired and placed on a pedestal

By all accounts, Sage loved her husband and child, but was known as well to frequent the bar of the Gilded Lily She even sood poker player

She frequently visited Trey Hardy, once he’d been taken to jail, and was disconsolate when he was shot down in his cell Trey Hardy, being an outlaho’d often held up stagecoaches--but let the driver and guards go--could have learned during his tiold was leaving town And e McCorical that he’d told her about the intended heist

"I’ll bet she did know so," Jane murmured "But what?"

"And e ever find out?" Sloan responded "Hey, take my phone The number for the hospital should be in the contacts See how Ji the phone on speaker so that Sloan could identify himself He was told that Jennie re well

"There’s still a county officer watching the halls?" he asked

The nurse giving the report assured Sloan that an officer was on duty He coo

Sloan thanked her, then said, "One more Find the nuain"

Newsoue, but one of his officers told Sloan that all they’d heard so far was that the blood on the cane found near Jennie Layton belonged to Jennie Layton The cane itself had been wiped clean

Sloan sighed, disgusted that they couldn’t seeet there," he said, "we’ll play along with the street theatrics again"

She glanced at him, surprised

He offered her a crooked sation, but that won’t help figure out what’s really going on here Ito talk e’re in costume Anyway, a costume isn’t all that different from a uniform"

"You know this is kind of crazy, don’t you?"

"Everything about it is reed

It was still early, not quite 8:00 am, when they arrived But the doors to the theater were unlocked As they entered, they saw Henri sitting at one of the tables with his cast

"Jane!" Valerie cried, running over and giving her a hug "How are you? You poor dear Do you have any idea what happened to you yesterday? Should you really be up and walking around?"

"I’ more?" Alice asked "I mean, could you have tripped?"