Noah would have been a lot more alarmed if he knew that another set of circumstances had led Randi to dig up the same information he had discovered. While the lab began new tests on the samples she took to them that morning she decided, before going back to diagraming, she would head to city hall. She had not said anything to Dan, wanting to look into this before she laid it out there, just in case she was chasing a wild hair. However, it had suddenly occurred to her that if she dug around in the zoning commission and the tax collectors office she might find another thread to pull in this situation that had her thoroughly stumped. And she did not like being stumped. Every one of the owner reps she and Dan had questioned, either separately or together, had been polite and anxious to resol

