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“So you have the DNA from the bones. All you need to do is match it.”
“Right. And if the blood doesn’t match, we know it probably belongs to the guy.”
“Do you need a sample of his DNA?”
“No. Unless you need it for something else.”
“No, I don’t.”
“All right,” Jackson says. “Give me twenty-four hours. I’ll be in touch.”
“Thank you. You’ll be compensated very well.”
“I know, and I appreciate it. Tell Ruby I said hi.”
“Will do.”
I leave the stems with Jackson, but I take the rest of the items in the shoebox with me. Once everything is over, I’ll return the entire box to Ennis.
“I’ll see you out,” Jackson says.
“Don’t bother,” I tell him. “Go ahead and start your work.”
Back in Snow Creek, I stop at the cinema to talk to Jenny Mabel, the manager.
Jenny and I went to high school together, and she always blushes profusely when I talk to her. True to form, her cheeks are bright red when she comes out of her office.
“Hi, Brock.” She looks at her feet.
“Hi, Jenny. Thanks for seeing me. I need to change my reservation for Rory Pike’s concert.”
“You do?” This time she looks at me, and she widens her eyes. “We were all really looking forward to that.”
“Don’t worry. We’re not canceling. There’s just some stuff going on right now, and Rory can’t get the program together as quickly as we first thought. I’m thinking maybe mid-December?”
“Come on back to my office, and I’ll take a look at our schedule.”
Schedule? Really? The Snow Creek cinema has a schedule?
“Okay.”
I follow her back to her office, which is the size of a large closet. She sits down at a tiny desk and taps on the computer.
There’s no extra chair, so I stand.
“Yeah,” she says. “Just as I suspected. We’re planning a great big Christmas movie marathon beginning December fifteenth. We’ll have all the oldies.Miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Bells of St. Mary’s…”
“What aboutElf?” I ask.
“Elf?”
“Yeah. It’s a freaking classic.”
She reddens further. “Okay. I’ll see if we can get it.”
I chuckle. “I’m kidding, Jenny. What if we booked Rory on the fourteenth?”
“That’s a Thursday.”
