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"How about the youngest brother?"

"Jonathan He was seventeen at the tih school when Sa there until he went to Darts--well, but a lot of people were back then"

Savich rose "Give o put him down"

When Savich came back, he leaned down and kissed the back of her neck "What happened to Jonathan?"

"He lives in Boston now He’s very well-off, has three boys of his own, all married with children, and he’s still married to his first wife He seeically, as in no public fits or aberrant behavior"

"Okay, the parents What happened to the senior Barristers?"

"Now that’s really strange Both of the accident on Lake Klister That was one year to the day after Townsend married Samantha"

"Was there any suspicion at all of foul play?"

"None that I’ve been able to see One day they were there, hale and hearty, then the next day they were gone--there was no sudden stor to explain why both of them fell out of their boat, other than talk of lots of booze Evidently the senior Barristers liked theirwhile they drank--so it could be that simple The belief is that one of them went overboard, the other went in to make a save, and both drowned

"Townsend took over everything Problem is that Townsend wasn’t the business over very quickly Then she got pregnant in 1966 and gave birth to Austin Douglas Barrister on August 14, 1967 Within a year she was running the whole show It appears fro of a drunk, was arrested a couple of times on DUIs--out of the local area, so it couldn’t be kept out of the regional press, but still he had enough influence to have the charges quashed

"It wasn’t in the local paper, naturally Townsend also took up gaust 14, 1973, on the very same day that they’d been married, the salas Barrister was born, Sae party for Austin on the grounds of the house, a big barbecue for his sixth birthday Sa Townsend waspretty steadily, and everyone seeood old time, until they found Samantha Here’s a quote from the Blessed Creek Weekly Journal: ‘Samantha Barrister’s body was discovered on the floor of her second-floor bathroouests, Mrs Ees, who said she’d wanted to use the facilities and thought that Sa in blood," said Mrs Hodges, "it was under her, seeping all around her It was horrible I knew she was dead, knew it right away" ’

"Then there’s the quote from newly elected Sheriff Doozer Harms, the sheriff we met in Blessed Creek just last Friday He said, ‘Mrs Barrister was stabbed through the heart by a person unknown’ "

"You’ve got a gleam in your eye, Sherlock What else did you find out?"

"First thing I did was locate the er, Townsend Barrister, saed to actually speak to him He wasn’t real happy to hear from the FBI, but I kept after him until he opened up Turns out he’s reht in lots of h yet He has a new fahters

"Now, here’s e couldn’t find out anything about his son, Austin Douglas When I asked him where his son was, he heents on his doorstep He finally said that Austin Douglas up and disappeared the day he graduated high school He’s never heard froain, doesn’t have a clue where he is"

Savich was surprised "I didn’t expect this when I set MAX on Samantha’s murder Well, it doesn’t ive MAX the task of finding Austin"

"I already did It turns out to be quite a problem, for MAX and for everyone When Austin Barrister up and left Boston at eighteen, he must have latched on to a new identity, because I can’t find hi on tracking hi the fah school friends"