Chapter 110

Just then, James returned with his dad. I peeled my eyes from the woman, focusing on the reason I'd come.

"Sheriff Smith, good afternoon."

"Eva, how you doin', James here told me you needed some news articles for a uh, an essay?"

"Yes, sir."

"Okay, you can check our old records, James will take ya,"

"Come on," James nudged me, and I followed him down the corridor and into a small office by the left. The room was filled with shelves. Stacked on each shelf were books and old news articles. The room wasn't dusty, a sign of regular cleaning.

The only furniture in the room was a desk and two chairs on opposite ends of the table. They still looked brand new. Perhaps no one was actually posted in the office.

"This is the storage room. Well, one of them. This place is accessible to the public under the right circumstances. The main storage room for sensitive information is elsewhere."

I looked at all the work before me. As I advanced further into the room, I saw that the files were properl