AN: I am sorry for the utter... crappiness of this chapter. I don't know what I was thinking. No, I guess I was just thinking that this story is so long and I wanted to wrap it up soon. Oops. Shame on me.


"That's a lie!" Chase said angrily. "There still is oil here, I know it. I just haven't found it yet. When I do, you'll see!"

She couldn't say anything in response to his claims. Nancy did pity him then. He was so caught up in the idea of finding something that no longer existed that he let himself be blinded to common sense and decency. Soon after the police came and took him away. Nancy explained exactly what had been going on at the farm and asked that, despite his crimes, he received psychiatric help instead of just a sentence.