Chapter 174

“You think?”

“What about…” Kurt went into the office, returning with one of the laptops. Booting it up, he went online while saying, “The barn was well outside the city.”

“And?” Russ asked.

“I did a photo shoot on abandoned towns in the area. The story should still be in the paper’s archives.” It took Kurt a few minutes to find it, and then the town he was looking for. “It doesn’t look like much but it’s way off the beaten path and, well, what do you think?”

“Three buildings?” Russ said. “They look like they’ve been there forever.”

Kurt chuckled. “Because they have been. There were more but time, nature, and weather pretty much destroyed them. This one—2rdquo; he tapped on of the photos, oldquo;—used to be a hotel.ardquo;

That piqued Daw’s interest. “So it’s got a lot of rooms?”