I was all healed up and could be there in a couple of hours. That would make for a nice surprise when my parents showed up.I got to the house a couple...of hours later and discovered a problem - Bobbie Joe wasn’t home! My Subaru was missing, as were Mom’s and Dad’s cars, and when I knocked on the door, the only sound I heard was Rex barking. I probably still had a key to the house, but it was undoubtedly in my stuff, which was either in the house or out at the apartment in West Springs. I could. I’d do a patrol, make sure there was no-one lurking in the loos. I drew the line at going into the men’s- it stank to high heaven. One night, I’d thrown the last man out and bolted the door, went and turned off the loo lights and started to empty the ashtrays. What a glamorous job I had. I’d cashed up and was taking out the last of the glasses from the washer when I heard the far door opening. “Oi, who’s there?” I shouted. Paul, the landlord would have come in behind the bar. I tensed. “Just. The following day I had intended to phone Danny to find out what he knew but got caught up at work until I got a call form David at about 11:30hrs. He said that he had copied the drawings but wouldn't be able to get them delivered until about 17:00hrs. I told him I would be off site by then and he suggested that he could take them home at lunch time and I could pick them up from hi there. He said he would be home until about 13:00hrs but if I was later he would leave them with Cordelia. I. Each person failed to fill fit the facts, except... Deirdre... My dear aunt had a motive if I accepted that my being discovered cut into her inheritance and – may be more importantly – her father’s attention. If I indulged my suspicious nature, I could imagine Deirdre deciding to bed me was her way of replacing some of the attention she was accustomed to getting from her father. If I went really out on a limb, I could imagine that she might have wanted to be the woman that warmed her father’s.