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“Ready for a little hide-and-seek?”

“Lead on”

They had little hope of following any footprints in the an picking their way through the paths and tunnels forraveyard Saave the shorter one to Reotten only fifty feet or so when they heard a faint voice through the falling rain

“I don’t knohat you’re talking aboutwhat piece?”

It was Ted

Ain return, but neither Sam nor Remi could make out the words

“That thing? It was a piece of a bottle Nothing important”

Sa to catch the sound and narrow in on where it was coestures, Sam pointed ahead and to the left, under an arch forhbor She nodded Once they were through the arch the voices became more distinct

“I want you to tell me exactly where you found it,” the unidentifiedThe voice was accented, either eastern European or Russian

“I told you, I don’t remember It was somewhere on the river”

“The Pocomoke River?”

“Right,” Ted replied

“Where?”

“Why are you doing this? I don’t understand what—”

There was a slapping sound, sorunted, followed by a splash as he obviously fell over in a mud puddle