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"Did he give you any identification to take with her?"

"No, everything was all arranged e arrived They were expecting us"

When a tear rolled down Adelaide's cheek, Jackie opened her purse again, pulled out a tissue, and handed it to her

"Nothing inthat beautiful little girl in the hands of strangers Georgia cried and I cried, but there was nothing I could do She wasn't ed to pull herself together "What happened next?"

"I used the third ticket Mr Connelly gave me to fly froia after that?"

"I wrote her a letter Mr Connelly got hold of it so to killwas about"

"Did you ht if he knew right where I was, he wouldn't think I was up to soo in Aain and he stayed away"

"How did you end up in Colorado?"

Adelaide wiped the last tear off her cheek "Well, they were going to deo soet the Denver paper and I read about Mathew and Laura Connelly a few tiia's mother didn't die Then I read about Mr Gladstone and his hter, Laura Connelly, and no grandchildren"

"So you knew Mr Gladstone didn't know about Georgia"

"That's right There isn't a day goes by, I don't think about randfather knew, so I spent all I had on a bus ticket"

Jackie's eyes widened "You rode a bus all the way from New York City to Denver?"

"It took forever I'll never do that again"

"I don't blary, and went to a shelter A nice man there said he could helpbefore Only this one really did help ot me this place to live It isn't much, but it's a roof over rateful you came to him," said Jackie

"Was, you mean He died Mathew Connelly killed him"

"Why do you say that?"