Assumption

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Ogden walked into the station a couple of days later to hear a man and a woman describe how their car had been vandalized. The well-dressed couple told their story to Felton. The man told with some pride how he’d managed to get their car started.

“Excuse me,” Ogden said. “Where did this happen?”

“At Fog Canyon,” the man said. “That’s what we were told it was called. We were going to hike up to the falls.”

“Never heard of it,” Felton said.

“He’s talking about Niebla Canyon,” Ogden said.

“That’s what niebla means?” Felton said.

“We’ve had a run of incidents up there,” Ogden told the couple. “I was told the county was putting a sign up there warning about vandals.”

The woman said, “We saw the sign.”

“And you didn’t believe it?” Ogden asked.

“Somebody will go up there and look around,” Felton said.

“Good,” the woman said.

“We didn’t get more than a hundred yards up the trail when we heard them breaking the windows,” the man said.

Ogden walked to the door of Bucky Paz’s office and leaned against the jamb.

“What do you need, Ogden?”

“More vandals up at Niebla.”

“Shit. Find the time to stop up there once in a while. That’s all we can do.”