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“Did you arrest him?”

“I thought I persuaded him to turn himself in Then he disappeared and took soht home”

Elisha tried to look serious, but as her daughter went on, her an to move and a chuckle escaped her lips

“Mother, it’s not funny! He left e rabbit and a note that told me he loved me!”

This broke Elisha’s resistance and a loud guffaw burst frohter as Pro continued to protest

“Mother, you have got to take this seriously! This is a police investigation…of a murder”

By this time, Elisha had pulled out a chair from the overburdened table and sat down as she continued to be swept away on waves of merriment

This frustrated Pro even more, and she walked over to her stepfather’s favorite easy chair, which now held a potted palot her coffee, and sat down as her lee

Finally, after a couple of an to calm down She pulled a napkin from somewhere in the bower and daubed her eyes and blew her nose

“I should eat all of your chocolate to punish you for laughing at me,” Pro sniped from her chair

This got another giggle from her irl”

She grudgingly came over, took several candies, and ate thes of coffee “I feel like I did when I was a kid”

“What do you mean, honey?”

“I mean all the craziness around Max I didn’t have any idea as going on and didn’t understand half of it”

“Honey, you were a child There’s nothing you could’ve done”