The Ghost Ship by Gerrie Ferris Finger

Author:Gerrie Ferris Finger [Finger, Gerrie Ferris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Romance
ISBN: 0615545866
Publisher: Crystal Skull Publishing
Published: 2010-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

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Ann stopped at the filling station just over the Georgia border into North Carolina and punched the number she knew by heart into the pay phone.

Spence answered.

“Spence, it’s Ann.”

“Ann?”

“Didn’t recognize the number on your display, huh?”

“No, as a matter of fact.”

“Did you get my messages?”

“I did.”

“Yet, you didn’t call me back.”

“No, I – had an agreement with Rod. We don’t talk to people if we can help it.”

“You’ll have to try a whole lot harder in about eight hours.”

“What do you mean?”

“Haven’ you been keeping up with wire service news?”

“Some. Rod doesn’t. He’s pretty much isolated himself away from it all. So, what are you getting at?”

“You familiar with a columnist named Missi McNamara?”

“Name sounds familiar.”

“Gossip columnist with a national audience. She used to be a friend.”

“You blabbed to her. Uh, sorry, didn’t mean to put it quite that way.”

“Unfortunately, I trusted her friendship. I made a few remarks that she weaved into a big piece of cloth.”

“Like all the other jackals.”

“Missi is covering the story for The Atlanta Courier. The story will be picked up by the wire services across the country. She either is on her way to your island now, or will be as soon as the next flight leaves Atlanta for Norfolk.”

“So what? We have a bunch of jackals down here already – from cable, network and newspaper. She’ll be just another sniffing around.”

“Missi is more treacherous.”

“She couldn’t be.”

“Missi is beautiful, and seductive.”

“Are you worried Rod will fall for her and spill his guts?”

She laughed cynically. “Not Rod. You.”

“I can hold my tongue.”

“Rod probably wouldn’t agree with you. He wouldn’t like some of the things you’ve told me about him and his wife.”

“That was then.”

She hesitated. “I haven’t talked to anyone about the Carroll A. Deering.”

Spence said, “The way the media makes it appear, it seems like your not saying anything, validates what Poblo’s saying. They run your picture on television, give your biography. It’s like they’re saying that any time now you’ll be giving an interview.”

“I won’t until I can come to an agreement with Rod.”

“Agreement to do what?”

“I’d like to get the old Derring case opened again.”

“What would that accomplish?”

“Modern technology may be able to provide some answers.”

“About what?”

“What happened to the S. S. Hewitt, for instance.”

“I know she disappeared about the same time as the Deering,” he said. “You may be right that they can find something, but I don’t know what it would be.”

“Nobody does until the case is re-opened.”

“Go ahead then.”

“Not without Rod’s blessing.”

“I can’t answer for him.”

“I know.”

“Where are you?”

“In South Carolina.”

“Hiding out?”

“For a while. I’m on leave from my job.”

“Got fired?”

“No, but I know I won’t be going back. Contrary to what Rod thinks, serious magazine publishers do not like their editors sensationalizing themselves.”

“What will you do?”

“Go somewhere, get a pack of Tarot cards, put up a sign for the Gavrion Order of Eternal Suspension.”

He chuckled. “Pretty woman like you, you won’t have any trouble making it in the world. Besides, you can always get married.”

“The male’s age-old answer to any woman’s dilemma.

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