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"Have you heard from them since?"

"Not a peep," she said "I sahen Patrick died He spotted the obituary in the paper and drove down for the funeral"

"Drove down fro a little town an hour and a half north of us "He was calling hi Dancer as his last name He looked wonderful Tall and handsome He has a shop up there where he builds furniture He showed raphs and the pieces are beautiful He also does custom cabinetwork"

"You think he’d talk to me?"

"I don’t see why not You’re welcome to use my name, or I can call him if you like"

"When you saw hi and Shelly?"

"Briefly He told one To tell you the truth, I didn’t care thathad been dead to me since the summer of ’sixty-seven We parted fro that happened to them afteras irrelevant Except for the business with Rain, of course"

It bothered me that much of what she’d toldon Mary Claire, but I have trouble believing they’d resort to snatching her That’s hard-core for a pair eren’t seasoned criree I can’t i any of this even under Shelly’s influence, but Patrick felt if they were desperate enough to take Rain, they wouldn’t be all that scrupulous about trying again We paid without hesitation If the plan worked once, why not twice?"

"I wonder how they fixed on Mary Claire? Did you know the Fitzhughs?"

"To speak to We didn’t socialize with them, but ere all hs said they’d pay, didn’t they? I reed to the ransom the same way you did"

"They also notified the police, which they were told not to do The kidnappers ured it out"