I’D BEEN WANDERING around for an hour or so, bumping into old friends and chatting to complete strangers, strolling in and out of tents and outbuildings. I’d even had something solid to eat. I’d pulled out the photograph of the girl I’d been hired to find, to refresh my memory. She wasn’t bad looking. Long dark hair. Big brown eyes. Golden complexion. Dressed in a school uniform, but that didn’t detract from her looks. The photo was apparently a bit dated, being from a year or so before, but she couldn’t have changed all that much.
Problem was, I hadn’t seen her. There were probably a couple of hundred people on the farm, milling around with no particular direction, so it wasn’t going to be an easy task. But for a grand, I was prepared to wander around for a while longer.
There was a cen
