Chapter 4

"But I have three autopsies scheduled for today!" Jordan protested.

"Then lock the door while you are in there," Bug warned.

She quickly got her coffee and headed to her office to get rid of her coat and boots. As she passed Garret's office she could hear Lily still trying to calm him down.

To top off the frustration of the day, the freezer repairman did not put in an appearance. By quitting time neither the repairman nor the body of Little Fred had turned up. Garret was reluctant to let them go home that evening with the body still unaccounted for, but it was Jordan that reasoned what more could they do than they had done that day if they stayed longer?

That evening after work Nigel had his weekly tarot card reading with Clara Rose. It was a typical reading without anything unusual turning up in it. However, as he was about to walk out the door she called out to him, "Dearie, the missing man you are looking for is covered with white."

Nigel's eyes popped out, still finding himself surprised at some of the things Clara Rose came up with. "How did you know?"

"I just saw everyone looking for someone and then saw him covered with white," she answered.

"We did lose a body today at work, but the 'covered with white' doesn't really help a lot Ms. Rose. We cover all the bodies at the morgue with white sheets. Thanks for trying though."

"Oh," she pouted a bit. "Well I did try and if I get any more information about it I will let you know, Dearie."

"Thank you Ms. Rose," he said and left.

Nigel was telling Bug what Clara Rose had told him the night before when Jordan walked in and he started the story all over again. Bug shook his head resignedly that Nigel believed in this wacky woman's predictions, then he gleefully told Lily the story when she came in.

Garret was in his office yelling into the phone to get the repairman there, unaware that his staff were all in the break room talking about advice on finding the missing body from a physic! If he had known, his blood pressure might have let him take Little Fred's place!

Something had clearly put him in a better mood though, because when he entered the break room, he seemed less ready to tear everyone's heads off. "Jerry should be here within the hour," he announced.

"Jerry?!" everyone in the room asked in unison.

"The repair guy. Now I want this place torn apart until that body is found! Everything else can wait!" When the four of them stood there looking at him, his scowl returned and he barked, "NOW!"

At that four cups of coffee were slammed down on the counters and their owners scurried from the room.

Garret reached for his own mug and poured himself a cup of coffee with a self-satisfied grin on his face.

Jerry arrived and went right to work as the search for Little Fred continued. He finished in just under two hours and presented the bill to Garret, which he reluctantly paid, and still the body had not been found. It was just after lunch when the freezer had cooled down to the right temperature and they could start moving bodies down from the roof. They had all made one trip to the freezer and were starting down with their second person when Bug ran his gurney into something. He tried to push passed whatever it was, thinking it could have been a hard spot in the snow, but when that didn't work, he stopped and walked around to the front of the gurney. Bending down he let out a gasp of surprise and called out to everyone, "Hey guys, guess what?!"

To be continued…