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He looked down at the asphalt drive “That looks like a fresh oil spot,” he said, pointing to a dollop of liquid
They stepped to the side of the front door and Puller gave it a nudge with his foot It swung open and he did a quick look inside
He eyed Knox and motioned with his head
She ducked into the house, her gun pointing center left Puller followed her perforht They cleared the first floor and then checked the garage
“That’s Myers’s BMW,” said Puller “I don’t knohose Maserati that is”
Knox opened the door to the Maserati, popped the glove box, and took out the registration
“Josh Quentin”
“Okay, this is starting to make sense”
“Do you think they’re here?” asked Knox
“We have ”
“You think they’re dead?”
“I think we’d better check”
They moved up the stairs and went room by room on the second floor In a bedrooth of rope and a balled-up washcloth
Knox said, “Looks like someone was restrained Who do you think it was? Myers?”
“I don’t know”
They split up, with Knox taking half the floor and Puller the other half Knox cleared her section and then found Puller in one of the bathrooms
“Find anything?”
He pointed around the toilet “Looks like someone was sick to their stomach”
Knox wrinkled her nose “Smells like it too”
“And then there’s this” He led her over to the shower “Check out the pipe”
She looked at it “Someone nearly crushed it Did you check for a tool mark?”
“It doesn’t look like a tool was used Froers”
"That pipe is h to withstand the water pressure”
“I can think of only one guy who could make metal seem like putty”
“Paul So he was here Do you think he was the one tied up?”
Puller shook his head “That rope never would have held him”
“So he had someone tied up Myers?”
“It’s her house But it could be Quentin”
“I wonder how Paul found out about this place?”
“I don’t know But he apparently was here”
“But ould he think Myers has anything to do with Jericho?”
“I don’t know, Knox! Unless he stu in that upstairs room at the bar”
“I guess he could have He worked there”
Puller exa “It’s a few strands of hair fiber” He picked them up “Doesn’t look like Myers’s Maybe Josh Quentin’s? His car’s in the garage too”
“Maybe that’s who Paul was looking for? Maybe he followed Quentin down here And didn’t even know Myers was going to be here”
“That could be”
“And we know he and Myers are working together to pass secrets It would ht meet here,” noted Knox
“So Paul, Myers, and Quentin were all here together And people tied up ashcloths balled up in their mouths so they couldn’t cry out and warn someone”
“So Paul was holding them both? And nohere are they? Did he take them somewhere?”