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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
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  18. Fifteen
  19. Sixteen
  20. Seventeen
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  22. Nineteen
  23. Twenty
  24. Twenty–one
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  27. Twenty–four
  28. Twenty–five
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  30. Twenty–seven
  31. Twenty–eight
  32. Twenty–nine
  33. Thirty
  34. Thirty–one
  35. Thirty–two
  36. Thirty–three
  37. Thirty–four
  38. Thirty–five
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  40. Thirty–seven
  41. Thirty–eight
  42. Thirty–nine
  43. Forty
  44. Forty–one
  45. Forty–two
  46. Forty–three
  47. Forty–four
  48. Forty–five
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  50. Forty–seven
  51. Forty–eight
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  53. Fifty
  54. Fifty–one
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  57. Fifty–four
  58. Fifty–five
  59. Fifty–six
  60. Fifty–seven
  61. Author’s Note
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. Also by Becky Masterman
  64. About the Author
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Anyways, whoever is reading this knows about the robbery from the news and our trial, but in brief here is what Perry told the boy without me being able to stop him. A prisoner named Floyd Wells had told me all about this family by the name of Clutter who was well to do and lived on a ranch just outside Holcomb, Kansas. This was not far from where we were in prison the first time, in Lansing. Floyd Wells said that he had worked for Clutter seasonally, along with a lot of other men, and that Clutter paid them in cash. He said Clutter always had money in a safe in his office which was on the first floor of their two story house.

The boy asked who was “they.”

I said it was Mr. Clutter, Mrs. Clutter, and a teenage son and daughter, according to Wells. There was an older daughter who did not live at home any more.

The boy said then it’s a good thing there are three of us.

Perry said that was so.

The boy asked how Wells knew about the safe.

I said Wells told me he had seen the safe, and the money in it.

The boy asked how much money.

I had sort of given up hope of being able to extricate ourselves from this little weasel boy, and started to answer ten grand, but Perry, who was sitting in the booth next to him, winked at me and said five thousand dollars. In a second I loved Perry again for at least doing this, for lying about the money so the boy’s take would be less than two thousand and Perry and I could split the rest between us. It made me very happy, which I think Perry meant to do, so there would not be bad feelings among us going in. It’s better to feel this way when you have to work together.

Forty–four

Not wanting to appear too eager, Beaufort went over to the DiForenza house the morning after Brigid left for Florida. Of course she must have discovered something about Beaufort’s connection to Smith and Hickock and to the Walker case or she wouldn’t have gone there. Likely she didn’t know all, but if Meadows had happened to describe the small old man he’d talked to before Yanchak got him … if Brigid had connected that man to Beaufort … if she had found out something from that abbot at the monastery about him visiting … but then she would have called Carlo and warned him, wouldn’t she?