It may be a long shot, but…” “Great. That’s the general area where a couple of hounds seemed to pick up Mariah’s scent but then lost it along the creek, so you may be on to something. But can you drive into town instead of me picking you up? Vern just dropped in to see how the search is coming along, so I’m going to question him now. You can wait in the outer office. I don’t want you going to Sunrise without me along.” “Sure, I can drive in. But I also wanted to tell you that I got a call from Mother’s contact in Frankfort at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Frank Redmond, the man she sends the sang counts to. He wanted to know if he could pull some strings to send people here to look for her, but I told him that had been done and he should call you.” “Did he have any clue about whether her counts would be high, normal or low?” “I didn’t ask directly, but I think he was worried about it being low.”
