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“AhGhost hunters, are you?”

“I take that to mean you believe he’s dead,” Remi said

“Oh, I do not know Of course I’ve heard the stories about his periodic enuine pictures of him At least, not in the last forty years or so I’d like to think if he were alive, he would have come to see me”

Sam pulled a manila folder froari parchnize this?”

She studied it for a nature I translated this for Bully in” Kaalra, “Nineteen seventy-two”

“What can you tell us about it?” Sam asked “Did Lewis tell you where he found it?”

“He did not”

Reari”

“Very good, my dear Close, but incorrect It is written in Lowa While not quite a dead language, it is fairly rare At last estimate, there are only four thousand native Lowa speakers alive today They are mostly found in the north of the country, up near the Chinese border, in what used to be—”

“Mustang,” Sauessed

“Yes, that’s right And you pronounced it correctly Good for you Most Lowa speakers live in and around Lo Monthang Did you know that about Mustang or was it a good guess?”

“A guess The only current lead we have on Lewis King’s whereabouts is a photograph in which he supposedly appears It was taken a year ago in Lo Monthang We found that parchment at Lewis’s home”

“Do you have this picture with you?”

“No,” Relanced at Sam Their shared expression said, Why didn’t we ask for a copy of the picture? Rookie h”

“If it is not too nize Bully if it were truly him”