But there was no way to know yet if Chevy’s little escape had truly compromised her. Of course, waiting for someone to appear on the doorstep looking for her would probably mean it was too late. If Tess were Bass, she’d find a place to move her in any event, even with his hands tied. She opened her e-mail, went through it, and then realized she was hungry. She’d only gotten through half her lunch earlier. She decided to visit the coffee shop, get a cup of the house blend and maybe a cinnamon roll. She got up to leave and nearly ran into Win Yarrow.

“Oh, Agent Yarrow, what can I do for you?”

“I wanted to give you the link to my forest cams and show you how they work. They’re motion activated, but you’ll have the ability to access the feed on your desktop. I can also pull the feed up on my phone; not sure if you want that ability.”

“I’ll take a look. By the way, I noticed there haven’t been any animals poached lately, have there?”

“None that I’ve found, not since the fire, anyway. But all the activity in the forest may have forced Blakely to lay low. He’s a criminal, but he’s not stupid. If he were, I’d have caught him by now.”

Tess had to smile. She could hear her father say, “We don’t catch the smart ones.”

She returned to her desk and sat while Yarrow showed her the four trail cams and how she could view or review the feed. A thought crossed her mind that he should be explaining this to Becky Jonkey, her officer with the most computer savvy, but Becky worked nights, and Tess might as well get up to speed on new technology. It took about forty-five minutes for Yarrow to go through all the details. Tess was certain that she understood the whole process but made a note to go over everything with Jonkey as soon as possible.

“Do you have any other suspects?”

Yarrow shook his head. “No one hits my bull’s-eye like Ken Blakely,” he said as he prepared to leave. “But he fired a shot over the bow. He just filed a formal complaint accusing me of harassing him.”

“I’m afraid I saw that coming.”

“Yeah, that’s why the cams are great. I can watch, and if he shows up on a feed, he’s caught, and he’ll never know what hit him. I still can’t believe that we found nothing at his place.”

“He’s certainly smart enough to have hidden everything. Maybe that’s the key—figure out his hiding place.” Briefly Tess remembered the trailer park and Blakely loitering around there. Did it mean anything?