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Kelsey shook her head "That was cruel and brutal, since they obviously meant to kill the victim, anyway What difference did itto kill him It doesn’t an said, "and we’ve all learned that cruelty doesn’t have toon the skull you’ve already detere McCor from photos and scans of the second corpse, do you have old photographs or paintings we could ot several books written by historians throughout the years, plus replica editions of books written at the tierty, Aaron Munson, Red Marston, Eae McCor of her over the bar, just behind you Jane’s two-dimensional sketch was really all we needed to see that the skull had belonged to Sage I’d asked her to finish her reconstruction for sentimental reasons, really" He paused "You’ve probably heard that she was an ancestor of mine" When everyone nodded, he went on, "I believe the skeleton we dug up in the desert is going to prove to be Red Marston, butthat’s a theory at this point, nothing more And I think if that body is Red Marston’s, then we justin the ?"
"Have you gotten settled yet?" Sloan asked Logan and Kelsey
Before either could answer, his phone rang, and he excused himself to answer it Jane watched as first a frown and then an expression of relief ca," Sloan said "If she does have soet"
He hung up and told theer--they call her their ‘stagewell, and the doctor says I can speak with her"
He got to his feet "I’ll call you," he said "I don’t knohat she’ll know Maybe, just maybe, she’ll remember some of what happened"
Jane set a hand on his are, but I’m not sure the person--or persons--who attacked Jennie and h"
"Why do you say that?"
"Because Jennie and I are alive," she said quietly
"Jennie got a pretty good hit on the head with that cane," he argued "And you were knocked unconscious"
"But Berh had his throat from slit ear to ear," she said
"I’ll see what Jennie has to say," he said "I’ll call when I’ to stay with Jane over at the Old Jail tonight?" Kelsey asked Sloan blandly "If so on in that room, two pairs of eyes would be better than one"
Sloan see, though, Jane thought, lowering her lashes to hide her amusement
"Certainly Of course," he said He paused to talk to Liz and then walked out the door
"We’ll eat first, and then you can show Kelsey and an said "And, if you don’t e McCormick suite"
"Of course We can catch soive you a tour of the place--with Henri’s perood on theI’ve had so far," Jane said
They ordered their h activity and noise in the bar so that Jane could really talk to theet their feedback
"People kill for different reasons," Logan said "Revenge, sometimes for presumed injustices They kill for passion Or because they’re reed Lily’s past victireed of others Andon today How many of the people in the town have ancestors ere here at that tie McCorrandmother," Jane said "And I’ in the theater came from other places, and I believe Henri Coque came here from elsewhere, too I don’t know about the others We’ll have to ask Sloan"
When they’d finished the an, and asked if, after the show, he’d reed, s He told her he liked her even better in the crimson dress than in the blue "I’ve heard from a number of our audienceon the street Thank you! Feel free to take your fellow agents around the theater"
While Kelsey and Logan went out to retrieve their overnight bags and settle into Jennie’s rooo to her rooely divided She now had two of her Kreith her, and yet she still felt it was important to be in both places--the Gilded Lily and the Old Jail
And talk to the ghosts there
She gathered a few things to put in a sht, then sat on the bed
"Sage, I wish you’d talk tocold but gentle andyearning sweep by her Walking into the bathroom, she closed the door and turned the sink faucet on hot until steamy water poured down the drain and a e? I don’t knohy you won’t speak toto solve all this and prevent more deaths"
She felt the air shift around her The h the steae was behind her Jane didn’t turn around; she spoke to the host
"Help us If you speak to e stared back at her
With a slight stirring of the air, the ghost an to write She clearly saw the words
SPEAK NO EVIL