Page 85 of Rangers Last Promise
Maybe not everything.
But enough.
Mara reaches for the journal.
“Mom didn't destroy the evidence.”
“No,” I say.
“She separated it.”
I look at her.
The journal in the cedar chest.
The lockbox moved somewhere else.
The key left with Mara.
Grant’s plan survived because his mother continued it.
“She was protecting the pieces,” I say.
Mara’s eyes widen.
“By making sure no one person had all of them.”
Exactly what Grant had done.
Coordinates with me.
Names in the photograph.
Key with Mara.
And whatever he sent home—
Hidden by his mother.
Sheriff Tate folds his arms.
“So where would she put the lockbox?”
Mara thinks.
“Not at her house. Hampton searched it.”
“Bank?” Wolf asks.
“She had a safe-deposit box.”
Tate reaches for his phone.
Mara shakes her head.
“I closed it after she died.”
“Was there a metal box inside?”
