Death of the Office Witch (37 page)

“Radio phone's tied up for a while,” Ranger Tim told her cheerfully. “We got a new digital but there's still twenty phones on four frequencies and we got a backlog of calls to make. Come back later this afternoon, why don't ya? Or if it can't wait, maybe Mr. Cabot would let you use one of his. He's rented three cellulars and a repeater from Royce's Electric in Moab.”

“We are asking no favors of Gordon Cabot,” Edwina informed her daughter as they left the center.

“I wanted to catch her after she got up but before she decided to go out somewhere,” Charlie insisted. “And I have to get that tire fixed. John B. and Mitch must have phones, too, if Cabot does.”

“Mitch doesn't, I know. This is his chance to get away from it all. Drake has one, I think. If not, I need a few things in Moab. You can call from there. We'll tell him our business lunch'll be late. Those people don't keep human hours anyway.”

If the director or his blonde were at home they didn't answer Charlie's knock. She left a note on his door and they took off in Howard's Jeep, Charlie driving.

Howard Greene had purchased the Jeep two weeks before his fatal heart attack—which was just under two weeks before Libby was born—and had never traveled in it except for a few forays into the mountains west of Boulder. Since then, Edwina'd rattled it all over the deserts, plains, and mountains of the Southwest but it would always be “Howard's Jeep.”

Howard had been a good deal older than Edwina and a full professor before his second marriage. Still, Charlie would always wonder if the shock of her pregnancy had in any way helped bring on his coronary.

Because, although Professor Howard Greene had taken little notice of his adopted daughter as she grew up, Charlie certainly captured his attention when at sixteen she announced she was pregnant.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Mae Woods, Irene Webb, Margaret Armen, Wendy Hornsby, Jim Stinson, and Carol and Bob Verhoef for their patience and assistance in preparing this story. Any errors or misinterpretations are mine and not theirs. And David Millhiser for maintaining his sense of humor while driving me all over the L.A. freeway system.

About the Author

Marlys Millhiser is an American author of fifteen mysteries and horror novels. Born in Charles City, Iowa, Millhiser originally worked as a high school teacher. She has served as a regional vice president of the Mystery Writers of America and is best known for her novel
The Mirror
and for the Charlie Greene Mysteries. Millhiser currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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Copyright © 1993 by Marlys Millhiser

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