12/30/2022 0 Comments Read after the night linda howard free![]() ![]() The most important thing was that Gray was innocent. She had learned so much tonight, and still not enough. Renee hung up the phone, the connection breaking in the middle of a sob. Who is he, Mama? Maybe I can do something – " Leave before you get hurt, you don’t know him – " You never should have moved back there, Faithie now he’s after you too. It could also have landed in a corner, or behind something. The casing could have landed in the boat, or even in the water, to be lost forever. But the place had fallen into disuse after Guy’s disappearance, so it was likely only the minimum upkeep had gone into the boathouse. What were the chances that a shell casing would still be there after twelve years? Almost none. Had he thought about the casing, gone back to pick it up? The killer had had a body to dispose of, and a witness to terrify into fleeing. That meant the shell casing had been ejected, somewhere inside the boathouse. ![]() "Clip in the handle," Renee said after a moment’s thought. "Was it a revolver, like the ones used in Westerns, with the round chamber that the bullets fit into, or was it the kind with the clip in the handle?" "What kind of gun did he use? Did you see it?" That was possible, but would the killer have wasted time digging a grave, a grave that might be noticed, with the lake right there? Weight the body, and the problem of disposal was solved. "I guess he must have buried it somewhere." Do you know what he did with the body?" Renee hiccuped, caught by surprise. "I won’t let anyone arrest you, I promise. "You – you won’t say anything? This has to be our secret, or he’ll have me arrested, I know he will – " She would have believed everything he said, probably with good reason. No, the killer had gauged her well there was no way Renee would have gone to the sheriff. She had seen the one man she cared for, the man she was depending on to make her life easy, shot to death, and then been threatened with having his death blamed on her. Poor Renee, without education, influence, or friends, with all her wild living and lack of responsibility, had been a prime target for anyone who wanted to make her a scapegoat. ![]() For the first time, she felt pity for her mother. He can do it, you don’t know him!" Her voice rose shrilly on the last sentence, and she dissolved once more into wrenching sobs. He said if I ever came back, he could make it look like I’d killed Guy, and I’d get the death sentence. He told me to go away, and he t-took my bracelet. ![]() "He – he didn’t mean to kill Guy, he was just so damn mad, he said. Finally she gulped, and regained shaky control of her voice. Renee couldn’t answer for a moment, she was crying too hard. "Why didn’t he kill you, then?" Faith asked, trying to make sense of why a murderer would deliberately let a witness go. ![]()
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