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"Sounds like you and Dix need to get to the hospital too, see to his wounds You promise me you’re okay, Ruth?"

"I’d better be Dix looks like he wants to start a brawl We’ll call you from the hospital, Dillon, let you know everyone’s status"

Savich heard Dix yelling at soround He pulled off at the next exit "It’s back we go to the city," he said "Even though I can’t tell you for certain where Makepeace is, I want to get over to Julia’s house and find those journals They’re at the center of this thing, Sherlock I think we’ll find so to let Julia coh call, but you know, Julia knows every nook and cranny in her own house We need her Captain Paulette will provide enough people to keep Makepeace away, if he so happens to show up there"

"From your mouth to God’s ear," Sherlock said

CHAPTER 49

At two o’clock that afternoon, Julia, with Savich, Sherlock, and Cheney close behind her, unlocked the front door of her house and stepped in The large entryas filled with shadows, eone years rather than days," Julia said "It’s like a stranger’s house"

Cheney took her hand "We don’t want to stay here any longer than necessary, Julia" He frowned at Savich, who raised his hand "Listen, Cheney, we’ve already discussed this into the ground We’ve got to find those journals Both you and Julia said Kathryn Golden put extraordinary e places They’ve got to be here, so let’s get busy The sooner we find those journals, the sooner we’re out of here Julia, you said you already searched your husband’s study, but we’ll start there"

"I didn’t really search everywhere, sis up"

"Okay, then you and Cheney go to the study Cheney knowsdealer Sherlock and I will start here in the living room"

When they were alone, Savich walked to the front s and pulled back the thick draperies He saw aa neighbor’s bushes Anothera yard Both were undercover cops

He joined Sherlock in front of the painting over the ust Ransom," he said "His eyes are dark and intense, just like Wallace Taner" Were they a necessity, he wondered, for the psychic package? He glanced into a mirror on the wall beside the fireplace, and his own dark intense eyes stared back at hiet to work"