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Sam clicked his seat belt and clutched Josie's new, Nebraska-winter-worthy coat in his lap No doubt she'd be freezing once they found her

The snowfall had gained intensity in the ten ainst the cruiser and swirled the quarter-inch of snow covering the asphalt McPherson's Bluff towered over the prairie, an optical illusion ood fifteen miles away

“So Chris tells as”

“Yes She's a painter too”

“Any good?”

Guilt sucker-punched him in the kidneys “I don't know, I haven't seen any of her paintings” He'd spent so et into her pants, he hadn't bothered to find outthat really mattered to her

You're a real asshole, Layton

“So should we try the east or west entrance to the bluff?”

“Neither, we have to start at the beginning They took both s They have to know the starting point is either Rebecca's first ho house”

Hank gave him a hearty dose of side eye “Dial that back, professor, and talk to me like I don't live this crap every day”

“Sorry Snips is after Rebecca's Bounty That's why my office was trashed this week He told Josie that if she finds the treasure for hiet he wants to turn her brother over to some mob boss”

Hank'sroad When he didn't say anything, Saed and continued

“Josie was given Rebecca's diary Inside the back cover was athe correct place to start, ho house”

“So which is it?” Hank rolled to a stop at a T in the road

Go left to the west side of the bluff and Rebecca's first hoht to the east side of the bluff and the McNerny boarding house He had a fifty-fifty chance of getting it right, if he wa