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"Nothing in my personal mail at the house, or in et my private email"

"Do you know if Tommy received any such threats?" Savich asked

"No, not that he ent Savich, I have never paid too much attention to protests in the street or to rando letters It would seem to me that you in the FBI always know more about such people, and such matters, than I do"

"Indeed we do, Mr Cronin," Savich said "And so that would bring us back to information you can help us with,voice, "Very well, Agent Savich, ask your questions"

"Let’s begin with Tommy," Sherlock said "Do either of you knohere To on Friday nights?"

"Toent Sherlock," Mrs Cronin said, "but since he got busy at collegehim far less than ould have liked You will have to ask his friends at school"

"Agents are interviewing his friends at Magdalene right now, Mrs Cronin Did you e friends?"

Mr Cronin said, "Toe friends here upon occasion, as well as his friends froirlfriend here for Thanksgiving He was proud of that girl, besotted"

Mrs Cronin said, "We were distressed because she was a very unfortunate choice, but Toht he would get over her, given time and experience"

"Why did you think she was an unfortunate choice, Mrs Cronin?" Sherlock asked

"It becaain entrée to our world, probably sleeping with hi notes while they were here, saw herdohat Pal

"Her naton, a communications major"

Mr Cronin said, "When we asked her what she intended to do with her coree, she told us she wanted to becos fell into place It should have been clear to To We asked how they’d ht To I know, I know, they are young, but still--we had no wish to see her here after that"

"Tommy called me in early December," Mrs Cronin said "He wanted her to coathers here He was upset e told hiain" Mrs Cronin sighed "He was angry, demanded to knoe didn’t like her I was honest, told hi her visit here, that it wouldn’t surprise me if she’d tried to sell her ‘exclusive’ with us to the tabloids

"Toain after Thanksgiving We regretted his absence, as did his Aunt Marian and his sisters, but what I told hiht, it was the truth"

He enty years old and in love, for heaven’s sake, Sherlock thought, and wondered how the Avilla Cronin she’d read about had becoine the intense and never-ending scrutiny that had colored their every interaction because of Mr Cronin’s position over the years, particularly after the world’s econoine she broke off with hih her If only I’d been able to see Toht boy, a very high GPA, higher even than yours, Palh e asked hi He didn’t have all that much time to socialize, he told us; he had to study too hard"

Mr Cronin said, "So you see, don’t you, Agent Savich, that Tommy simply didn’t have the time to stir up a lot of enmity from anyone I’rades, but surely not because of his connections After all, dalene come from families of position and wealth"

"He tended to be a loner," Mrs Cronin said, "not very big on parties or drinking That’s not to say he wasn’t popular, because he was, h school, but he was addalene for his fine mind and his hard work