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тАЬNo. There are three of us here in the Eugene office; we take turns. They arenтАЩt exactly pleasure jaunts,
Lieutenant. It happened to be my turn.тАЭ

Caldwell nodded, as if everything Brice said checked out with the notes he had. Then he said, тАЬI
understand that some of the associates share rides. Do you do that?тАЭ

тАЬNo,тАЭ Brice said stiffly. тАЬDave Fulton is in Salem, and I would have stopped and picked him up, but I
planned to stay over Friday night, and he didnтАЩt. So we drove up separately.тАЭ

тАЬDo you usually stay up there overnight?тАЭ

тАЬThat was the first time,тАЭ Brice said. тАЬThe other times I went I didnтАЩt get home until after two in the
morning. We never know when the meetings will end, and no matter when I go to bed, IтАЩm awake by
six-thirty. I decided to stay and get some sleep this time since Abby would be gone.тАЭ

тАЬDid you check in at your office here in town before you drove up to Portland?тАЭ

BriceтАЩs impatience was clearly strained almost past endurance. тАЬI already told them. No. Abby didnтАЩt
have to go to work until nine, and we lazed about that morning. I left when she did.тАЭ
The lieutenant asked more questions: where he had stayed, the names of his associates, where they had
met, had dinner, where he had had breakfast. All things Brice had gone through with the sheriff, all things
already in his notebook, Abby felt certain. BriceтАЩs tension was almost palpable; she took his hand and
held it. At first he was as stiff and unresponsive as she had been all week, then he squeezed her hand and
she could feel his tension ease. They were both like that, she thought fleetingly, coiled so hard and tight
that a word, an expression breeze might make either of them erupt in some unpredictable way.

тАЬOkay,тАЭ Caldwell said at last, and turned to Abby. Connors, you want to tell me about Friday?тАЬ

She moistened her lips and released her hand from I grasp, which had grown increasingly hard. тАЬI was at
the with friends.тАЭ

He smiled at her. тАЬIn just a little more detail, maybe?

тАЬJonelle, Jonelle Saltzman, picked me up when I go work at about two, and we drove out. To Yachats.
Emma son and Francesca Tremaine came out a little later. We walked around, ate dinner, and talked
until very late. On Saturday deputy came to tell me. Jonelle brought me home.тАЭ

тАЬThis is something you do often, go spend the week with your pals?тАЭ

тАЬOnce a year, sometimes twice.тАЭ

тАЬWho made the reservation?тАЭ

тАЬI did. At the Blue Horizon Cottages.тАЭ

тАЬWhy that weekend?тАЭ

тАЬSince Brice would be away, and the others could make it seemed a good time.тАЭ