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might make the contractors think twice about supporting a

venture like this.”

”Good thinking,” agreed Abigail. ”A lot of these guys are

uni on too. I'm surprised they haven't considered these things

already.”

”Well, who knows what kind of promises Greg and Rick

are making right now.”

”Did you hear Greg has officially quit his postmaster

job?”

”No. I hope he's not sorry about that later.

”I also heard he's already flattened and removed all the

old buildings from his folks' property. Everything's in the

process of being surveyed for the streets and utilities. And I

heard if the weather holds out, they might start working on

it right away.”

198Melody Carlson

Maggie groaned. ”There seems to be no real way of stop-

ping them, but at least we can put up a good fight. Say, Abi-

gail, would you give Mr. Westerly's niece, Jeanette, a call?”

She wrote down the number and handed itto her. ”Find Out

if she's learned anything from their lawyer yet, even though

I a.s.sume that because we haven't heard from her they

haven't uncovered anything to make a difference.”

Suddenly Abigail sat up straight in her chair. ”You know,

a letter came today. It looked like some sort of government

thing, but not that interesting compared to all this local