Page 14 of Wolfish
Selena laughed. “That was my first thought.”
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Daniel hadn’t had any luck finding the car that had hit the other in the parking lot at the Wolff ski lodge, though he had secured a lot of eyewitness accounts. 2022 Black Mazda, dark-tinted windows, muddied license plate so they couldn’t read what it was. Several of the patrons had captured video of the accident and the driver tearing off, nearly hitting a couple of hikers in the parking lot.
He put a Bolo out on it to see if they could locate it in their area. The damage to the other vehicle hadn’t been substantial so he wasn’t sure why the driver would hit it and run. Still, he suspected he had a suspended driver’s license, maybe no car insurance, drunk driving, or using drugs, just multiple issues with the driver of the car that he could think of.
He called Peter to give him an update.
“You know, Selena found a skeleton,” Peter said.
“Uh, yeah, at the Southside Cemetery near the silver mines.”
“Right. Ellie was able to speak with his spirit and learned more about him.”
“Oh.” He hoped Selena wasn’t upset, feeling that her own work might have been less critical if Ellie could tell her everything she didn’t know about the man.
“Brett is running the story.”
There went Selena’s exclusive story for her book. He hadn’t even thought of warning her that Ellie, if she could see a spirit, might take over her investigation.
“Do you need me to check into anything else?” Daniel asked.
“There’s another hit and run, sounds like the same vehicle. We need this guy off the road now. He’s either drunk, on drugs, or the worst driver ever.” Peter gave him the directions, and Daniel hurried off to try to catch up to the guy.
On the way to the second crash site, he called Selena. “Hey, sorry about your skeleton case. I heard Ellie and Brett were there.”
She laughed. “Here, I did all that training for nothing. I’m fine with it. Ellie’s ability to speak with a spirit was fascinating and gave me more information than I could have ever uncovered, given the few records of that time.”
“I agree.”
“What about getting exclusive rights to the story?” Daniel asked.
“Oh, I think this will be even more noteworthy. My books are read all over, not so with the newspaper, I’m sure. I have to find lots of skeletons, or other headstones that I can read to add to the book. What are you up to? Have you found the hit-and-run driver yet?”
“No, and from the sounds of it, he hit another car.”
“Oh, no. Lousy driver and a menace to everyone.”
“For sure. He was headed toward the second cemetery you wanted to check out, but I would stay away from that area for the time being. I’m going in that direction to look for any sign of the car.”
“Where is the cemetery?”
“I’m serious. Don’t go out there. I don’t want to hear that you got in an accident with this guy.”
“Okay. I’m not about to.”
Daniel gave her the location of the second cemetery. “Remember, I’ll pick you up at six.”
“Yeah, sure, it sounds good.”
Then they ended the call, and she thought of going to that cemetery later tonight after dinner. But for now, she had more deliveries arriving at the store, and she hurried over there to put the merchandise up on the shelves.
To her surprise, she got a call from Brett. “By the way, I’m just giving the details in the newspaper on the skeleton, where it was found, age, not all that Ellie said.”
“Why not?” She was surprised.
“We post facts. Since some don’t believe in Ellie’s ability to speak with ghosts, we leave that out. I believe her, of course. But in your book, you’re free to reveal whatever you want.”
