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"But you don’t know that he was actually onto you"

"Oh, but I do and he was I destroyed the file he kept at work, but he had a duplicate at home Talk about a breach of security," he said "That caht just re-cently"

"Lyda found it"

"Now that was your fault After you flew to Texas, she went through the papers she’d packed up and came across all the data on Chris Eured it was someone at the plant She called h had unearthed I told her I’d be happy to take a look at it and help her figure out what to do with it She made me prom-ise not to mention it to Lance since she was so suspicious of him anyway"

"Nice," I said "And the threat from her… you just made that up?"

"Yep"

"And the day aited at the bird refuge, she was already dead out in front?"

"Righty-o," he said

"How’d you kill Hugh?"

Terry shrugged indifferently "Chloral hydrate Then I strolled in and stole his blood and urine samples so it couldn’t be traced"

"Takes nerve," I said

"It had to be done and I kneas right I couldn’t have hi my life What madeOlive had a past just as bad as mine I didn’t need to protect myself at all I could have traded her, tit for tat, if she’d leveled with one She’s been paid in full, hasn’t she?"

His face clouded "I should have killed Lance and left her alive I could have ht you’d already done that"

"Well, yes, but she didn’t suffer nearly enough And now she’s off the hook"

"She did love you," I said