The police and/or the Carpenter's people, discovered that Burgess had money invested in several medical clinics in the UK, Europe and the USA. Police ...ocally searched the establishments, but there was no sign of Minerva at any of them. Most were cosmetic surgery establishments anyway.But a couple in France, one in Switzerland and one in the Western USA were ... substance abuse drying-out clinics, to put it bluntly. All were very thoroughly searched -- on more than one occasion, as I understand. The trouble was, she didn’t particularly want to be there. She had better ways of spending her Saturday afternoon than being man-handled by some stranger while wind-chime music played in the background. For example, she could be re-balancing the books for one of her main clients. Forty-two cents might not seem like a large discrepancy to most people, but it was irregularities like that that set Lydia’s teeth on edge. This, her husband insisted, was the exact reason he had given her the gift. Starting over isn’t easy.”“It’s a lot easier with the right woman,” I replied. “Once we’re settled, we’ll have you and Mom over for dinner. It’ll give you a chance to view her in a new light.”“Looking forward to it, son.”I drove back to the duplex. Andrea helped me prop the mattress against a wall. I busied myself with assembling two coffin-sized frames, cutting cleats out of a length of 2 x 2 with a sabre saw and using my cordless drill with a screwdriver bit to fasten the pieces together.. Slowly of course, on hands and knees along the wall moving in a clockwise direction slowly inching forward little by little. I can feel the cool floor beneath me, the ancient stonework is rough and sharp in some places as I keep my left hip and shoulder against the wall. I pause for a moment as I lose my courage and curse everything and anything that is the work of the creator. How can this be happening to me I ask the darkness as if someone would be there to answer me. Anger has replaced.