"We need to pinpoint the time and the place" Professor Romney told Amos who could not hide his impatience. "And to know who she was at that time."
"I can make her tell us."
"I warned you about getting into her mind in her fragile state."
"I can ask her what's her name."
Romney shook his head. "You do not know the risks you are running."
"I do not need to talk. I can get into her mind using the link I have with her. I have taken blood from her more than once. That allows me to talk mind to mind."
"It is too risky. I would rather go through the records. If I find nothing, we'll try it your way."
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"So, we wasted a couple of days going over the papers. Heather had analyzed the pills and confirmed Romney's suspicions. But still, we did not know the name she had then, nor where we could find it. Romney was sure in was in this area, because of the strength of her reaction, but when? And what would we do if it had happened when I had been chained in the coffin?"
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"Mr. Thatcher was here looking for you." Louis told Dinah.
She nodded.
"He seems very interested in you. And he looks like a good man."
"Too good for me, Uncle.
"What you mean?"
"I am a criminal. I killed someone with a bomb. And we killed Victor, you and I, and tried to kill Mother. He deserves someone better than me."
"This is your chance."
"I do not deserve happiness."
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"Frank, I know that you do not like going to jail," Wendy said wearily "but that's the best that you could get."
"Amos could..."
"Amos did what he could. But you cannot expect him to rescue you each time you mess up. You should not have been smuggling drugs."
"I did it for us… for our future."
"Frank, you almost got me killed one. Doc Lawson warned you over and over not to do it. He got in trouble with the Sheriff for warning you. And you just do not learn from experience. I wonder if I should marry you at all."
"Doc Lawson was my father. My real father. He never acknowledged me."
"And because of that you smuggle drugs?" Wendy got up. "Grow up, Frank, if you want to have any future with me."
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"We got it!" Romney told Amos as he was rising "We know who Beverly was!"
Seeing that Amos was hungry, and not willing to have him go away he extended his arm to him. Amos took it and bit into it as Romney told him all he had found out.
"Her name then was Nell Ferguson. She lived at the outskirts of Benchleytown. She was killed just a few days before you were locked up. Her husband was convicted of her killing and hanged. Beverly is probably caught experiencing Nell's death."