- Post Office -

It was closing in on noon when Danny pulled up the post office. The building was unlocked but there was no sign of the Post Master. In the main building the service booth was kept unlocked only when the Post Master was in the building.

He headed back to Cargonias for a homemade burger and fries. He hadn't had one for a long. It reminded him of when he would visit his grandparents as a child and they would take him to what they called the "ol greasy spoon".

He chose a seat by the window so he could see when the Post Master showed up.

Heidi, another waitress, took his order.

While he waited for his meal he tried Martin again. He hit the send button and scrolled through the numbers until he found Martin's and hit the send button again. The phone rang four times until his voicemail came on. Danny hung up. He thought of Martin's phone, "He always has his cell phone with him and on. He has those funky Star Trek computer sounds when it rings."

The food was excellent.

When Heidi came to clear the table and leave the ticket, Danny asked, "Is Gina ok? She seemed pretty upset earlier."

"She's just had a lot going on, I guess. She has been hanging out a lot with Kevin Davidson. I think they might be dating"

"Kevin Davidson?"

"I guess you wouldn't know since you aren't from around here. Kevin and Kerri Rowan dated since Junior High. They did everything together. When Kerri moved to the big city, they broke up. It wasn't nasty or anything. She just needed to move on. When she comes back to town they always visit and stuff like that, but just not like it used to be."

"Here lately Gina and him have been doing a lot of hanging out together. Don't you thing it's kind of odd for Kerri's best friend to be seeing her ex? A couple of days ago they went on a trip together and ever since they got back, she has always seemed to come in to work feeling all sick in the mornings."

"Hmm. I really need to check that out. It could be a lead."

He saw that the Post Master had returned.

"Thanks Heidi", he said. She finished clearing the table; he left a tip, and paid at the counter.

After walking across the street, introduced himself, showed his badge yet another time and asked if he could get Mrs. Rowan's address.

The postal lady gave Danny some information. "Mrs. Sallie Rowan lives west of town on Roxbury Road about six houses south of Stevens Crossing. It's pretty new, there are a lot of new homes out there. It's the biggest though. Very pretty home. Anyway the address is 3914 South Roxbury. It's the Brick house back off the road with a duck pond in the front yard, You shouldn't have any problem getting up to the house. Oh another thing, it's the only one that already has the driveway paved."

Danny took out his logbook and jotted down a few notes.

After the lady had gotten into her mail truck, she said she was running behind and still had many stops to make.

As she started to drive away she said, "It's such a large house for a widow. It's so sad about what happened first to her husband now her daughter."