‘I’m always doing stuff like that,’ I said. ‘Saying stuff like that. I’m well known around town as foot-in-the-mouth Ritchie.’ She laughed...uproariously at my description of myself. And, I was red faced again. Frustrating! I checked my watch. It was 11:00PM. We were standing in front of her house. The house that used to be our house. She had a look on her that spelled ‘decision time.’ ‘You can come in, Richard. I want you to,’ she said. My eyes got as big as dinner plates. Could she be . . . ‘My. I’d always gotten along well with my sister in law, so when my wife told me she would spending the winter vacations with us, I was quite happy. Little did I know what my wife had planned for us. My SIL arrived and for the first few days, there was nothing suspicious being hinted at.Then my wife dropped the bombshell on Christmas night. When we were going to bed, she told me that Namrata (her sister) wasn’t able to get pregnant, because her husband was impotent. I immediately felt sorry for both. Door to residence was open, town police within.Police directed EMTs to two locations. A young woman and boy were foundhuddled in a closet while the other EMT found the body of a deceasedhanging from a rafter in the garage. With assistance of the police thebody was lowered and placed in the first ambulance for conveyance to themorgue in Woodstock. A second ambulance was called when it became clearthat the other two patients were incoherent and unable to communicate.Both were taken to London. “I hope not, but this is new ground to me. I’m quite well past the advanced placement curricula in our school. I have been doing some on-line studies. My husband thinks I’m deranged.”“And the other girl? Deena?”“Two years younger,” I grinned. “My husband’s daughter. MY evil stepchild. If I can do it, she can do it.”“That’s it!” Bren said. “We must stop Aneeta. She was sending them to us one at a time. Now she’s doubling up on us.” He looked at me, laughing. “I don’t suppose you’re going to.