Flash Memory: A Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 2) by Castle Anna

Author:Castle, Anna [Castle, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Anna Castle
Published: 2016-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Wednesday at eleven o’clock, I gathered my courage and optimism, what little I had left of both, and hiked on over to the Law Enforcement Center to visit Ty. I’d spent most of yesterday afternoon choosing and tweaking photographs to show him, but the guard wouldn’t let me bring anything in. Doubtless he feared Ty would be so inflamed by the beauty of the great outdoors, he would make a break for it by holding a print to the guard’s throat.

Paper cuts can be very painful, you know.

Ty looked puffy-eyed, like a man spending a lot of time sleeping. “Thanks for coming, Penny. The days get pretty long in here.”

“No license plates to make? No cotton to chop?”

“I wish. I could use the exercise.”

“I’ve got some great pictures to show you next week, when you get out.”

That earned me a rueful grin. “That’s optimism, isn’t it? I vaguely remember what that feels like. You must have good news.”

“Not exactly. I have been meeting new people, though. Meeting them and insulting them and thereby making a great fool of myself.”

I told him about my visit to the bank and about wrecking Tillie’s marriage. Ty assured me that they’d work things out and laughed at the idea of Sid as a suspect. He liked taking the role of Comforter and Advisor; it suited him so much better than Wrongfully Accused and Powerless Victim.

He studied my face for a long while in silence, as though he planned to paint it from memory. “Don’t give up on me, Penny.”

“I won’t.”

“And don’t give up on my project either. Get out there and shoot the southeast pasture, like we planned. We need to document that zone before I get the cedar cleared.”

“I’m on it.” If the sheriff’s department would let me back out there. Heck with it. I’d go anyway. Ty needed to know his life could still move forward.

I worked the conversation around to the gossip at DeGroot’s. “The new Internet guy, Peter Schmidzinsky, sounded absolutely positive those emails came from Diana’s account, from within your Lazy H domain, if that’s the right way to put it.”

“I understand you.” He shrugged. “It’s no surprise that Diana’s mail came from her account. Where else would it come from?”

“Not just Diana’s—the ones from Roger too.”

That put a wrinkle in his forehead. “They think Diana sent those? That makes no sense. They were signed ‘Roger,’ with his business links in the signature.”

“Not from her, like she wrote them. Schmidzinsky said they originated from her account. They were spooked.”

“Spoofed?”

“That’s it!”

“That makes even less sense, Penny. What’s the alleged point of this?”

“One idea is that Diana sent them, to make it look like Roger was still alive.”

“No.” Ty had started his head at the word ‘Diana.’ “That’s not within her scope.”

“Is it hard?”

“Not for me or for someone like your brother, but for someone like Diana or you, who doesn’t pay attention to how things work—”

“Hey!”

“Computer things, darlin’. No slight intended. You could do it, but you’d need guidance. There’s probably a step-by-step out there somewhere, but it’s definitely not her style.

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