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Sloan moved Bullet back onto the road, behind the van and in front of the car

The driver looked up and saw hiht he saw surprise and dis few seconds, he was afraid she was going to hit the gas and try to run hi out here? Oh,else happened, did it?"

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At one o’clock, Cy Tyburn and Brian Highs-do on horseback

They rode at each other al; they were supposed to have ridden with reins between their teeth, guns blazing, but Sloan had outlawed the use of weapons

Cy stood in his saddle and leaped for Brian The two flew froht between the theater and the saloon Jane watched the action anxiously, but they put on a good show and when it ended--with both of them "dead" on the street--they leaped to their feet and took a bow

Jane applauded with the others

After that, she slipped into Desert Diamonds and found Grant Winston, whom she hadn’t officially met He seemed harried and harassed, but he was cordial to her, and he offered her a chance to look through the books in his office

"Terrible thing about Caleb, butnot totally unexpected Okay, well, his throat slit in the old mine--that was unexpected This is Arizona, and a lot of people carry weapons Me, I keep a shotgun behind the ht have shot him if I actually carried a weapon I’m sorry I know I sound terrible But you won’t findover the ent Everett I told Sheriff Trent he elcome back there anytiht you were an artist"

"I am"

"Oh" He still seemed confused "Well, make yourself at home I can’t help you, I’m afraid Busy, busy, busy And, of course, you know--"

"I know that the ite--collectible and priceless I’ll be very careful with anything I touch," Jane promised

He nodded "Cappuccino? Espresso?" he offered

She shook her head "I’"

That pleased him She wondered if the offer had been a test

He walked her past rows of pae room with a plush swivel chair behind the desk, which held memo boxes on one corner, plus a co both sidewalls were rows and rows of books carefully placed in glass-covered wooden shelves "Behind the desk--that whole shelf is on Arizona history and Lily"

When the door closed behind hiinal of the republished book she’d been reading by Brendan Fogerty

Carefully, she removed it from the shelf and sat behind the desk The book was in excellent shape for its age She was surprised that the original had a dedication she hadn’t seen in the replica edition

"To Sage, wherever in this world or the next she ht it possible that Sage was dead

But who had killed her? Not her husband First, he’d been in the bar waiting for her when she’d gone to her roootten aith burying her in a dressing room Or had she been buried elsewhere first? Jane could only i body would have alerted soe McCormick’s presence under the floor

A er and artistic director of the theater back then His actors had been e had won so many hearts that she was hired to play role after role

Jane kept flipping pages

Most of what she read she’d already seen

A "rancher" named Tod Green had been in town for several weeks before the deaths of Hardy and Munson and the disappearance of Sage, Red Marston and the stagecoach Fogerty stated that he’d been suspicious of the rancher, since no one had known hi cattle He’d checked with friends in Texas, Oklahoround that he could discover Fogerty openly voiced his dislike and suspicion of Green as far as the robbery went, while saying at the saainst hi--because Tod Green had died in the streets just days after the stagecoach had disappeared He’d been staying at the Gilded Lily and gotten into a huge dispute with Eamon McNulty; the two had taken it to the streets and Green had died in the dirt, shot to death by McNulty

"So," she ht, Tod Green took down the stagecoach, old Where?"

She turned another page As she did, a fragile piece of old paper fell out The ink was barely legible "‘I will see that he is brought to justice My word to you, old friend,’" Jane htly The writing was full of flourishes and very pretty--a woe McCormick’s?

She pondered whether that could be the case when there was a tap on the door Before she could answer, it opened Heidi was there "Agent Everett, I’ve found your friends!" she said happily

Jane quickly stood, closing the book

Kelsey O’Brien and Logan Raintree entered the roolad you’re here," Jane said, stepping around to greet thean the best They had often worked together in Texas when he’d been a Ranger and she’d been called in to do facial reconstructions He was the perfect Texas Ranger, steady and strong, simply there to do what he was called upon to do He always used reason and negotiation before brawn and bullets He’d had a horrible tione by and during the San Antonio case, when they’d all been brought together, he’d been paired with Kelsey O’Brien--a US Marshal back then