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"Then there’s Red Marston, who disappeared the saht have been part of the conspiracy People thought Sage ran off with Red Marston, but if Fogerty was involved, the rue had gone off with Red So, let’s say Red was part of this, and he did care for Sage Maybe he didn’t want her killed, and because he wouldn’t take part in the etting really coerty and McNulty caet out of tohen it all blew over?"

"I don’t know That is a dile in a book he wrote hih" Kelsey pulled out her phone "I’ll look for hi her

"‘Eaer,’" Kelsey read "‘Born April 2, 1833, in New York City, New York, died June 4, 1873, Lily, Arizona, of a suspected aneurysoes on to talk about his start as a poor Irish kid working in the bawdy houses of Five Points, getting a leg up in legiti some of the hits of the day After critical success and financial failure, he accepted a request to e the infaht in artists like Sage McCore"

"What if McNulty was the one who stashed the gold-- it a secret And then he up and dies of natural causes!" Jane said "That wouldfor the gold But since he didn’t find it--and he’d gotten rid of all witnesses--he wrote a book!"

"Why would he do that? Although he wasn’t a half-bad writer"

"I guess he wanted his version of Lily’s history to be the one future generations accepted as truth," Kelsey said "But how does that affect what’s happening now?"

"Someone else knoe know And they’re deterold"

"If that’s the case, they ht be Hidden in the old shaft of the silver ested

"Maybe But I still don’t understand why Sage McCor stand, and why the body of an old-ti up to point the way to Jay Berman’s corpse," Jane said "Unless, of course"

"Unless it’s a warning to all the players to stay with the program," Kelsey said

"And Jay Berh did Whoever killed the on, that Caleb let sos here We know that at least two people, one of them a woh in the car in the garage and left them to die Jennie was attacked in the basement I was, too Sohsmith around the same time as Jennie was hurt And the skull was found in the theater Two things--the theater has to be i to a lot of effort to suggest it is And, second, I think we’re looking at soo There are partners in this, and a few of theht be on to so?" Kelsey asked

"Sageleavesto otten Bullet back to the stables and was dislad to hear his old crilad he was in town

"I’an told hihtsome lab reports any minute"

"Where are Kelsey and Jane?" Sloan asked

"Reading at Desert Diah there," Sloan murmured

As he spoke, Heidi came up to him "I’ll take Bullet, Sloan, unless you still need hi her the reins He realized Logan was silent at the other end

"Logan?"

"Yeah, I’ood at what they do," he said

"But I found Jane with a concussion down in the basement of the theater We’re lucky our killer didn’t finish her off Or Jennie"

"You’re going to need to have faith in Jane This is what she does Trust in her training," Logan said "You, me--anyone out there--can be taken by surprise, especially e’re not on alert"

That was true; he’d seen ht down by junkies because they weren’t prepared to be attacked, because they were trying to help

"I know you’re right," Sloan said "I’ll stop in and see what they’re doing and then head over to join you," Sloan said

"You’ve got uys, and the county has et here"

Sloan walked over to Desert Diamonds Seated on a fake boulder in front of the theater, Brian Highs the croith the story of Lily, proudly boasting that the Gilded Lily was older than Toe