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Nobody Reported the Tide

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Marsh asked what 'number seven' meant. Six investigators had come before him, the woman said, each one drowned within three days of arriving. 'The claim isn't theirs,' she said. 'It's filed for them, by whoever wants them gone.' The victims had been investigators, just like Marsh.

Marsh told the woman to come testify with him. She agreed, and they loaded every original file into his trunk. Halfway out of town she confessed one last thing — she was the one who'd filed his claim, to lure him here. Then she opened the door and was gone into the dark.

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