The Surrogate by Judith Henry Wall

Author:Judith Henry Wall [Wall, Judith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller

Chapter Twenty-three

GUS WAS BACK at Victory Hill sitting at his desk when the phone rang. He grabbed it and barked, “Yes.”

“Montgomery is dead,” Kelly’s voice reported.

Gus closed his eyes and slumped back in his chair. “Dead?”

“Yeah. Sorry it took so long. We searched the house from top to bottom. Then we spread out over the grounds, but the weather’s turned bad. A regular blizzard. One of the gardeners finally found her in the family cemetery completely covered over with snow. All she had on was a nightgown. She was lying with her arms around the marker for the stillborn baby.”

So that’s whose baby was buried there. Montgomery’s. But he couldn’t think about that now. At some later time, maybe he would process the information. Right now he had to deal with the situation at hand.

“And the girl?” he asked.

“I sent two men out in a truck with snow chains. They managed to get all the way to Alma and didn’t see a sign of her. The service station was closed but they asked at the truck stop. Lots of truckers and travelers are holed up there. No one had seen her.”

“How bad are the roads? Could she have even gotten that far?”

“I suppose, but I don’t see how she could have gotten any farther. The interstate and state roads are closed.”

“Who says?”

“The highway patrol. They aren’t allowing any traffic onto the interstate. Apparently there’re dozens of jackknifed eighteen-wheelers. I’m thinkin’ maybe she headed north, in which case she might have beat the weather. Hard to say.”

“Send men out on horseback. And get hold of someone in that little town north of there.”

“Monroe?”

“Yeah. Monroe. Call law enforcement in any town where she might be holed up, but tell them not to approach the girl. Tell them she’s a psycho and may be armed. They’re to keep her under surveillance and notify you.”

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