Heartwood

In the Gillis case, a dirt lot next to the Sugarloaf Hotel facilities warehouses, with a folding table and sign-in papers that blow away and a couple of cardboard boxes of coffee. Rob is regulating all comms, including the statewide police radio, in case Valerie Gillis pops out of the woods on the highway or in somebody’s backyard. Lena never came out and accused Christine of the betrayals of which she began to suspect her. Maybe Valerie had finally done what she was supposed to do—follow a stream.