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Sheriff Walker found a sudden  need to be outside  and Sullivan followed him. On the way out they heard Dr. Wahkan said, "Agent Tolson,  my prayer  is that  you find  whatever you  are looking for  quickly, and  never  again return  to  Headwater. Not  even uncivilized men treat their dead in this manner."

The sheriff heard Special Agent  Mark Felt's stomach  growl and guessed the man might not have eaten since breakfast. He invited Felt to dine out. Felt heartily agreed, so long as the sheriff remembered not to talk about the case in  the restaurant. Roddy decided on Bea's  Chicken  Inn  only five  blocks  east of  the hospital. Headwater wasn't a  very large  town. Roddy took him over in the half-ton truck and along the way Felt invited him to spill what he had uncovered up to that point.

Roddy said, "We have what is very likely the murder weapon, and it has fingerprints. We have  many photographs of the scene with tire and boot marks in snow. That house coming up is the home of the deceased.  I made  contact with her  twin sister  there, one Robyn Zinter,  who recently moved to Headwater.  She already knew Kim was  dead and described circumstances of  that death. I didn't bring  her in  because I  knew this was  going to  be the Bureau's  case from  the gitgo,  and  also because  some of  the things she said were pretty crazy."

Bea's Chicken Inn was kitty-corner to Robyn's house. When Roddy pulled into the parking lot he gave Felt one more item from the case. "The murder weapon came  from a  set of knives,  and this morning we recovered the set, based on a lead. The source of the lead was the aforementioned Miss  Robyn Zinter. But the lead was too good to risk passing up."

"Do you think she's indulging in misdirection, sheriff?"

"I can't figure her out at  all. She expresses zero  sorrow for her sister.  None.  She  intelligent and  sweet but half  the things that come out of her mouth make no sense at all."

When they went inside and  were seated Roddy remarked  that the place was much less busy that it used to be on weeknights. "Coal was the mainstay of the town and that's drying up."

Felt said, "I heard wartime meat rationing will start in a month or two."

Roddy nodded. "Places like this won't close up, but they'll have to collect ration cards from customers and put them all together to get resupplied. I suppose it'll be even  less crowded then."