“He asked to see the exact same drainage logs you just looked at.

He seemed quite troubled by what he found.

He wasn’t angry, just deeply frustrated.”

“Did he say what he was looking for?” I asked.

“No, but I do remember him asking whether we kept public records on private access roads in the mountains,” she recalled.

“Private access roads?” I repeated.

“Yes, there’s an old unpaved service road that cuts behind the north bend,” she explained.

“It leads up to a utility shed and an old communications relay tower.