Chapter 45

“Wow. That’s fascinating. I was on my way to a meeting, but I’ll have to be late. Let’s go back to my office.”

“My office…” That sounded promising.

We followed her past eight doors. The ninth was hers. The sign on the front read Margaret Marcum, Town Supervisor. She asked us to call her Maggie.

“Well, let’s see what we can find.” She sat at her desk, behind a computer, and motioned for us to sit as well. There were three chairs. I pictured Jefferson in the third. “There are no municipal projects dealing with tree removal. If someone said it was the town’s doing, I’m afraid they were misinformed.”

“Maybe I heard wrong,” Patrick said.

“It’s likely a private project. The riverbank is well populated with homes and businesses. Do you know the exact address we’re dealing with?”

I looked to Jefferson, to where I had imagined him sitting, if ghosts did in fact sit. “I don’t think there was an address when Calvin and I were there. It was just land.”