A Grave Mistake by Leighann Dobbs Page B

would he leave it on his gravestone?” Luke asked. “He’d already be dead when it was engraved.”
    “Yes, but he might have left instructions in his will,” Celeste suggested.
    Luke nodded. “True. We can check on that. And since we have nothing better to go on, we might as well try to figure out what it means.”
    “Well, it seems like the second line would be a pretty big clue,” Jake said.
    “ In my favorite place under the sun ,” Johanna repeated. “Who knows where his favorite place was?”
    “Maybe Thaddeus?” Morgan suggested.
    Celeste made a face. “We could ask him, but his answers aren’t always reliable.”
    “Maybe the first line is a hint at his favorite place,” Celeste said.
    “When two become one?” Morgan narrowed her eyes and looked up at the ceiling. “Where does two become one?”
    “Maybe it has something to do with one of the roads out near the farm,” Fiona suggested. “Like where two roads merge?”
    Morgan shook her head. “No, I think it’s something that has more meaning. His favorite place.”
    “And the bit about looking to the west,” Jake said. “That’s got to be a clue that the relic is hidden in the western section.”
    “Yeah, but of what?” Johanna chewed her bottom lip.
    Celeste snapped her fingers. “I’ve got it! Thaddeus said that Ezra loved his wife, Lila-Mae. Remember, he said he was really upset when she died and threw himself into his pharmacy work.”
    “Yeah…” Morgan raised her brows at Celeste.
    “Think about it. When do ‘two become one’?” Celeste looked at them with wide eyes and when no one answered, she continued. “When they get married!”
    Johanna smiled. “Of course! The second line makes perfect sense, then, because his favorite place would be where Ezra and Lila-Mae got married.”
    “You think that’s where he hid the relic?” Jolene asked.
    “It’s a good place to start,” Morgan said. “There’s only one problem.”
    “What?”
    “How do we figure out where Ezra and Lila-Mae got married?”

    ***

    “I can help out with that.” Jolene’s face lit up with eagerness and she hurried out of the kitchen into the east parlor, motioning for them to follow.
    Morgan slipped behind the desk next to Jolene while Fiona and Celeste stood in front of it. Johanna stationed her chair beside it and Luke and Jake hovered in the doorway. Morgan looked over her sister’s shoulder as Jolene flipped open the laptop.
    The login screen blinked at them.
    Jolene frowned at it, her fingers poised over the keyboard. After a few seconds, she quickly typed a username and password.
    Wrong username.
    “I must have hit the wrong key.” Jolene tried again.
    Wrong username.
    “Huh. What the heck is wrong with this thing?” Jolene’s voice was edged with annoyance. She tried a few more combinations, punching the return key harder and harder with each failed attempt.
    Finally, she looked up at them. “Okay, who changed my login?”
    Morgan looked over at Fiona and Celeste, who both shrugged.
    “No one changed it,” Morgan said.
    “Someone did … or I maybe I can’t remember it.” Jolene’s voice cracked. Johanna reached over and put a reassuring hand on Jolene’s arm. “It’s okay. That’s just part of getting hit in the head. A good rest and you’ll be fine.”
    Jolene looked uncertainly at her mother and Morgan’s heart pinched for her. Would Jolene be fine?
    “I’ll get one of my carnelians to help.” Fiona hurried out of the room. Her special gift with crystals and stones included a way with carnelian, an orange stone associated with healing. Fiona had used the stone several times in the past to speed up the recovery time for various wounds. Morgan hoped it would work just as well for a head injury.
    Morgan leaned over and typed her login on the keyboard. “We can still get in. Now, where do we start?”
    “Google.” Jolene straightened in the chair and started typing, her disposition improving as her typing