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Nobody Reported the Tide

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The records showed all six victims had called Marsh's own office before they died. Someone on his floor had spoken to each of them. He pulled the call logs and saw the same extension six times: the desk right next to his.

Marsh walked to the desk next to his. It was empty, cleaned out overnight. The nameplate read D. Pell — and the Pelican Road trust, he realized, was named for Pell. His deskmate had been filing the claims from six feet away, and had quit the moment Marsh got close.

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