CHAPTER 23
“Thanks, Howard, you’re a sweetheart,” Lynn purred. “I just feel I’m onto something; really, I’ll play hooky just this once.” She next called Eddie Gibson. “I have a newspaper photo of Henry Foote. Do you have one of your uncle?”
“Well, I have a blowup of a snapshot, taken about 1932.”
“Wonderful! I can be there in half an hour; I took the day off.”
“Hmm, I’m tempted to do that, too, if you don’t mind company.”
She paused, then spoke her feelings. “I’d love it.”
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After Smitty called Rose’s and learned of Billy’s departure, he called home, but there was no answer. He drove home to wait for him. Even from two blocks away, he saw the fire trucks. But by then, the fire was out, of his home, of his life.
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After several false attempts, Lynn and Eddie tried “Harley’
