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shielding his eyes from the afternoon sun.
    Turnup pranced over to Debbie Sue, his tail whipping as he begged for attention. She reached down and stroked his head. “Turnup, get down,” Justin ordered.
    “He’s all right,” Debbie Sue said, crouching to a squat. She cradled the dog’s snout in her hand. “He’s just happy to see someone. Why do you call him Turnip?”
    “Rachel named him that because he just turned up on our doorstep one day. ‘Turn up.’ Get it?”
    Debbie Sue laughed for the first time since he had met her, a warm laugh that lit up her face. She was tall, not as tall as her partner, but taller than Rachel had been. And she had green eyes like Rachel’s.
    Setting the dog away, Debbie Sue rose, straightened her clothing and became serious again. She strode toward him, all business. “Justin, our normal procedure before we agree to do surveillance work is to take a look around. Sort of do an assessment. Then Ed and I discuss it. We get back to you in a day or two and tell you if we can help you and what we’ll charge.”
    “Wow, you’re ready to just jump right in, aren’t you?”
    Edwina lowered her huge sunglasses to the tip of her nose and looked over the top edge. “She takes our work very seriously.”
    “Yes, well I guess that’s what I want. Somebody to do a serious job. Uh, sure thing, ma’am. Take a look around. Am I supposed to go somewhere or do you want me to stay here?”
    “These incidents that have been bothering you, we’ll needyou to show us where they’ve taken place,” Debbie Sue answered. “I’ll get my camera and be right with you.” She walked back to her truck.
    “I always thought this was a nice place,” Edwina said. “You keep it real clean and neat, just like the Gills always did.”
    “Thanks. Rachel and I bought it right after we got married. It’s more house than we needed, but at the time we figured on having some kids someday. And she wanted a place for her horses. This house came with the six hundred and forty acres and some good outbuildings. Rachel always had a way of making me give in to whatever she wanted.”
    Debbie Sue returned, camera in hand, “I couldn’t help but notice those mares you’ve got penned up. Did I hear you say the horses were your wife’s?”
    “Yes, ma’am, you did. I think she loved those horses as much as she loved me.”
    “They’re beautiful animals, but they need some exercise.”
    “I know they need to be ridden, but I’ve seldom been on a horse. Don’t even know much about them. I grew up in the city.”
    “You don’t have to ride them, though it would be good for them. Just turn them loose in the pasture so they can run around a little. They look like they’ve been penned up for weeks. It’s not right to treat horses like that. They need exercise.”
    Justin heaved a breath, and looked down, contrite. “You’re right. Truth is, it’s been hard to be around them.”
    “You aren’t the only one that misses her,” Debbie Sue said sternly. “They lost someone they loved too. It’s cruel whatyou’re doing to them.” She walked past him into the house, leaving him and Edwina to stand and stare.
    “There are some areas of Debbie Sue’s life you don’t mess with,” Edwina said, removing her sunglasses and shoving them onto the top of her head. “The treatment of animals, horses in particular, is one of them. She’s funny that way.”
    Justin was more than a little wary of Debbie Sue after the warning she had delivered back at the beauty shop. “Yes, ma’am. I can see she is.”
    He trailed the two women into the house, stopping in the foyer. “Uh, see those yellow roses? They weren’t here when I went to town earlier. But they were here when I came back. That’s just one of the things.”
    Edwina cocked her head and gave him a strange look. “Oh, yeah? You mean you didn’t put ’em there?”
    “No. I don’t know how they got there.” Justin saw Edwina’s eyes flare, but she said