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"They are I showed theuess they must be quite… upset"

"Not at all Mrs Sloan's eccentricities weren't new to thereatly relieved that I was there to take care of things"

"Yes I got that irateful to you"

Kathy recalled Mrs Martin's kind words She stared at Jesse for ait, are you?" he unexpectedly remarked

She didn't answer

"You would think they ought to be somewhat suspicious"

They or himself? Both

"Yes," she replied frankly "To say the least"

So drawn back

"They may be on Tuesday," he said

"Why on Tuesday?"

"I really don't think they knohat the properties on the island refer to What's htest idea of how much money their sister had"

"What do you ot ot a divorce, reht"

"I didn't know she had been married twice"

"She didn't like to talk about her firstto her oords, the ones spent with her second husband, Mr Frank Sloan

Anyway, she didn't start to write until she was in her forties By then, her parents were dead and her brother and sister ot on well, but they weren't very close - Christmas cards, infrequent phone calls and even rarer visits And they were all, as far as I have been able to observe in these eight years, extre the time I worked for Mrs Sloan, they came to the house twice and their conversations were always so polite and tactful You could never accuse theuess it's a family trait Which makes me think that they really had no idea of Mrs Sloan's career as a novelist They knew she wrote, but not that she washeaps of money with it"

"Really?"

The waiter came and took the reard to those properties on the island," said Kathy after they had asked for the bill "What exactly do you need from me?"