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“My request is pretty reasonable if I’m going to help you on this.”
“He was poisoned,” said Sullivan.
“If it was poison, how do you know he was murdered? It could have been suicide.”
Sullivan touched his wrist and pointed to his ankles. “He was restrained.”
“I didn’t see any evidence of that.”
“You wouldn’t. The restraints were removed after he was dead. The marks were under his clothing.”
“So they watched him die?” said Gibson.
“Could be. Which might dovetail with this being a revenge killing.”
“Okay, I’ll call you as soon as I know something from my sources.”
“Thanks.”
“You could have told me all this on the phone,” Gibson noted.
“I also wanted to show you something.”
“Where?”
“Follow me.”
CHAPTER18
DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.
Gibson was reading this off the wall at the end of the secret room. It had been written in foot-high letters using a broad-tipped red marker.
She turned to look at Sullivan, who was shining his flashlight on it.
“What do you take it to mean?” she asked.
“I have no idea. I mean, I know what it’s supposed to mean in a general sense. ‘Don’t follow my example or actions, only my words.’”
“Yeah, it’s a way for people to do what they want and then hold others to a higher standard.”
“You sound like you speak from experience.”
“Every woman I know can speak from experience on that one.”
Sullivan coughed into his hand. “Right, I get that. Especially in police work.”
“Inanywork, where there are lots of guys around. When did you find it?”
“Just recently. The team spent most of its time with the body and crime scene, but they finally made their way down here and found this.”
“And you think it ties the killer to Langhorne somehow? Presuming they were the ones to write it.”
“My people examined it and told me it hasn’t been here any longer than the body.”
“Okay,” Gibson said. She was wondering whether the killer had written it, or Clarisse, her new phone friend. Or whether they were one and the same, because she had no reason, right now, to believe otherwise. “If it does tie into Langhorne somehow, we might be able to track it down. But the nexus is pretty vague.”
“But not to whoever wrote it,” Sullivan pointed out.
