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“Ed Rawls has located the mother of the twelve-year-old, who is now remarried. I have spirited her, her son, and her husband out of the country, where they will remain until it is safe for them to return.”

“That’s good news. We’ll need to get her interviewed at once.”

“I don’t think that will be necessary. She sent me a DVD, on which she relates how she worked as an executive assistant to Nelson Knott, who raped her in his office. She later gave birth to a son, now twelve. She knew the other mother, whose name was Helen Trimble, whose story was much the same as the second mother’s. I am having the DVD duplicated and I will include one with each of Ed Rawls’s books. She also sent me a vial of her son’s blood for DNA purposes, which I am sending out for a profile.”

“That is excellent news,” Lance said.

“Will you find a way to let Will know?”

“I have a meeting in Washington later today, and he will be there.”

“Good. You might discuss with him when would be a good time for me to have the books mailed.”

“Certainly.”

“Lance, you employ a lot of people who are sneaky for a living, do you think one or more of them might contrive to get a DNA sample from Nelson Knott?”

“What a good idea,” Lance said, but he didn’t say he was going to do it. “E-mail me the DVD, and I’ll get back to you.” He hung up.

Stone called Ed Rawls.

“Hello, Stone.”

“The family is off,” Stone said. “They’re about halfway across the Atlantic as we speak.”

“Great news.”

“There’s more.” Stone told him about the DVD. “I’ll send it to you.”

“That is fantastic. I wish I’d thought of it.”

“I wish I’d thought of it, too. And,” he said, “she sent a blood sample from her son. I’m sending it out for a DNA profile, and Lance is working on getting a DNA sample from Nelson Knott.”

“Wow! What a great woman!”

“Lance has a meeting with Will today. He’ll get back to me.”

“And you get back to me,” Ed said.

52

ERIK MACHER GOT BACK TO his office, switched on his computer, and brought up his aircraft tracking software. He found the Gulfstream, identified by its tail number, halfway across the Atlantic. He estimated the distance to Brussels and calculated that the flight would land at about ten PM, European time. He called his contact in Brussels and conveyed that information to him.