CHAPTER 10: EBB TIDELYDIA PASSED NO EMTS OR cops on the wooden stairs. Her first sight upon reaching the top was two white heads and a dark one: Edgar and Leo, talking with Dave Wheeler.
The three of them must have retreated to this end of the yard for a break from the party. For once Dave’s camera was hanging on his chest instead of poised in his hands, which held a plastic cup of champagne.
“Hey, Lydia.”
“Dave.”
At any other moment she would have said It’s good to see you, since it was; but not now.
“I was just telling Mr. Shutterbug here not to be such a stranger,” said Leo. “How long since he’s darkened our doorway?”
Edgar, watching Lydia’s face, asked, “What’s happened?”
She told them.
“Hell’s bells,” said Leo.
“I should go down there,” said Dave Wheeler.
“Why?” countered L
