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Molly nodded

“And they were friends of your parents?”

Molly shrugged, said, “I only know that one of them carried me out of the fire”

“Can you tell us what he looked like?”

“He had a nice face, and I think he had blond hair And he was like Ruben’s age,” Molly said

“Ruben?”

“My brother, Ruben He’s in the cafeteria right now, but he goes to Cal Tech He’s a sophomore”

“Had you ever seen this boy before?” I asked

I felt Dr Matlaga’s hand atme that our time was over

“I didn’t know hi,” she said, finally fixing her eyes on el”

She closed her eyes, and tears spilled from under those lashless crescents and rolled silently down her cheeks

Chapter 61

“HANNI IS IN THE CLEAR,” Jacobi said, standing over us, casting a shadow across our desks “He orking the scene of a ht of the Meacham fire He said he told you”

I remembered

He’d told us that the Meachaht