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Blurb: “It was impossible to say what the original house had looked like; it was just a heaped mass of old lumber strewn in piles. But the foundation was still visible, a little wall of cement in a vaguely rectangular pattern. The dozer had smashed in just one section of it, on the side away from the driveway, and then backed off. "There you are," said Cassidy, "and I wish the doctors luck on it."
"I'll be damned,"
said Maddox. And after a moment he added,
"You'd better go call up a morgue wagon. I don't know just what a doctor could say, but this rain isn't helping to preserve any evidence."
"If there's any evidence left," said Rodriguez. He squatted to look closer.
There was a jumbled mass of broken lumber nearby where the
'dozer had knocked down walls, and just this side of that the broken cement where a section of foundation had been caved in, leaving a little trench a couple of feet deep. And rudely uplifted and uncovered by the dozer, there were two bodies nearly side by side.
Visibly they were human bodies, but that was about all it was possible to say. Neither, as far as Maddox could see, was reduced to a skeleton; they looked partly mummified. Both had a few shreds of unidentifiable clothing clinging to them. It wasn't possible to guess whether they'd been male or female, or how long they might have been there.
"It'll be interesting to hear what the doctors say,"
said Rodriquez.
"But I don't suppose the bodies buried under a house died peacefully in bed..”