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Devine pulled out his phone and showed a picture he’d taken. “Dust pattern on her desk at the inn. What else could that be?”
“When did you notice that?” asked Harper.
“When we searched the place.”
“And you’re just now telling us?” he barked.
“I thought you had noted it.”
This seemed to make Harper even madder, and he was clearly struggling to keep his temper in check. “How about your folks? Have they traced any of that electronically?”
Devine shook his head. “No, but I got another question.”
“Okay,” said Harper, seeming to brace himself.
“Where was Alex Silkwell attacked all those years ago?”
Harper looked at Fuss, who was now looking at the scuffed wooden floor.
“I was a sergeant back then,” said Harper. “Like Wendy is now. But we had other officers, like I said.”
“Okay. Were you one of the responders? And who called it in? I understand that Alex didn’t. She woke up in the hospital.”
“Why are you asking about that?” said Fuss, now looking at him.
“Because Jenny asked Alex if she had remembered anything about the attack.”
“What?” bellowed Harper. “You meanthistime? Who told you that?”
“Alex did.”
“She never told us,” retorted Harper.
“Well, she told me and I’m telling you. So I’d like to know where Alex was found, since it now seems Jenny came up here to look into what happened to her sister.”
“Why, after all this time?” said Fuss.
“I don’t know, but I’d like to find out. So the place?”
“Before my time,” said Fuss quickly.
Devine shifted his focus to Harper, who would not meet his eye. “Chief?”
“It was...actually, it was right around where Jenny’s body was found, as a matter of fact. But in the open field before you get to the trees and through the trail there to the bluff by the water.”
Devine’s expression slowly hardened. “And you never put two and two together?”
“No, I didn’t. Hell, I hadn’t even thought about what happened to Alex in years. Your question just now made me think about it.”
“Come on, you really think they’re connected?” interjected Fuss. “What about the military round found out there? And the person who took a shot at you? And the ones who kidnapped you? They were all foreign folks. They weren’t around when that happened to Alex.”
“I don’t know what to make of all that, yet,” conceded Devine. “But the location being the same for AlexandJenny? It might mean something. We have to follow it up.”
“You can, if you want,” said Harper. “I have better things to do with my time.”
“Okay. Did you confirm that the round fired at me was a NATO round? I’m asking because even though I found the casing, this case is so screwy when it comes to ballistics I want to make sure the casing matches the round fired.”
“We confirmed it, yes. Told the other feds, Saxon and Mann.”
