Caitlin wipes her face on her sleeve, then looks up at me with an almost accusing expression. “Are you so sure it was the Double Eagles? Why not Brody Royal?”

“Is that what you’re angry about? Something to do with Brody Royal?”

“Penn, you held back so much about him yesterday. I told you last night that Henry was going to work for me. There was so much you could have told me. I’ve lost so much time.”

“Not so much. And we didn’t know—”

She holds up her hand, then stares out at the highway with cold resolve. “I’m going to that bank to get Henry’s files.”

“Yes, and I’m taking you. We’ll pick your car up on the way back. Or maybe send a reporter back over here to get it.”

“No, I want my car. You can follow me if you want.”

“Caitlin, wait. We really need to ride together. You’re right, I have held some things back from you. But the biggest thing of all is that Dad has jumped bail.”

She drops her hand from her face. “What?”

“I found out late last night, but I couldn’t risk telling you on a phone. His life is on the line now. I’ve moved Mom and Annie to a safe house, and—”

“Excuse me,” says an unfamiliar male voice. “Are you Mayor Cage?”

A muscular man wearing a suit and an earpiece has appeared between two cars, and he walks toward us with one hand near the gap in his sport coat.

“Who are you?” I ask warily, wishing I hadn’t left my gun in my car.

“Special Agent Loomis.” He reaches into his coat, then flips open a wallet, revealing blue and white FBI credentials. “Special Agent John Kaiser would like you to meet him at the Jericho Hole.”

Caitlin touches my arm and shakes her head. “I don’t have time for that.”

“What does Agent Kaiser want to talk to me about?” I ask, not relishing the idea of being interrogated by an FBI agent on this particular day. “Can’t he do it by phone?”

Loomis gives me a tight smile and shakes his head. “We’ve ID’d the car at the bottom of that hole, sir. That’s not for publication, by the way,” he adds, with a look at Caitlin.

“Who did it belong to?” she asks.

“Sorry. Agent Kaiser may reveal that when you get to the Jericho Hole, but I can’t.” Agent Loomis looks at Caitlin again. “Are you Caitlin Masters?”

“Yes.”

“Agent Kaiser told me to invite you, too.”

“Why would he do that? Especially after the stories in this morning’s paper.”

Caitlin wasn’t kind to the FBI in her main story this morning. And she looks very reluctant to divert from the straightest path to Henry’s backup files.