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"At the party, she and Jack had a fight Do you knohat it was about?"

"Who knows? Kids fight, don’t they? I was gone by the time Beth left, anyway We discovered that a lot of the kids had been drinking The principal didn’t believe it ise for us to have any part of that We were supposed to educate against that sort of thing But he didn’t want to ruin the party, so he asked us to leave a few at a tio She was happy for the excuse Monte was not a sports person She left about, I don’t know, eight-thirty I left around ten"

"Were you close to the students?"

"Monte and I both were, probably because ere so close in age"

"If Beth was upset, distraught over Jack, and wanted to talk, ould she turn to?"

"Lynn Peyer She was Beth’s best friend"

"Was Peyer at the party?"

"Yes"

"When did she leave?’

"I don’t know"

"Anyone else? Anyone she ht she was killed?"

"Me, I guess"

"Except she didn’t come to you"

"No"

"How about Monte?"

"Very unlikely"

"Why’s that?"

"Monte didn’t approve of Beth You need to understand Monte, like I said before, she was a bit of a feminist At least she was a feminist by Victoria, Minnesota, standards She believed women could be, should be, whatever they wanted Only back in those days, living in a sh school either got e Beth, to put it charitably, was not going to college"