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“Follow er, and I trailed him toward my car

My car

was still on the lift, and Roy beckoned for me to follow hi down, I gingerly ducked under the vehicle

“See that?” Roy pointed a ser tohat I assumed was the brake line, unblemished and completely intact “That’s the replacement Now here’s what I took out”

He waved me over to a workbench streith tools and replace man plucked an identical, but dirty line from the disarray It was smooth, except for the small break in the line

“This line was in good shape,” he said “Your leak wasn’t caused by a faulty line You ask me, I’d say it was vandalism”

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I didn’t bother calling the cops What would they do? Autoh-priority crime

At least I knew I had someone’s attention The questions were Why? and Who? Was it because I’d followed up on finding Kandinsky’s body or my inquiries about Melissa? Were they connected?

As I drove home from the shop, I kept a lookout for suspicious cars or people I felt the vague tingle underwatched, a side effect ofof a sixth sense when it came to trouble

So it wasn’t a huge shock when I realized that a brown SUV a few cars behind e I slid over two lanes to the right and swung onto a residential side road Doing a quick scan, I noted few hiding places Except for one well-placed line of juniper bushes I pulled e The brown SUV slowed, then sped up to pass But not before I got a photo of the license plate

Chapter Fourteen

I returned to ed into one of my databases A quick search on the license plate nuuy na to the file, Weis lived in Baltimore, mere blocks from MICA I jotted down the address and added another naram The nature of his connection to be determined

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When I arrived in Weis’ neighborhood, I deliberately drove past the street he lived on For one thing, the curb was jammed with cars For another, I wanted to be as inconspicuous as possible If Weis had cuttoo close to his residence would be asking for trouble