She is the best person I can think of. So after the men left from the zoo, I told her of the trip to New Orleans and about the drug and the case that ...tarted all this. I did leave out a few parts. Like Alice. But maybe later I would tell her all. This was enough for now. Caroline was very skeptical of all of this and wanted to see some proof. "Well, you are going to see strange things happen very quickly if this is going the way I think it will." All was ready. Caroline watched as Allen took. It's usually quiet and they don't have a problem with me."In the months between the time Heather had decided to divorce Ellen andEllen had finally moved out of the house, Heather had spent a fair amountof time at the neighborhood restaurant. At first, it had been a way to bealone and still have people around her. People who did not try to useyou. Jake or his wife were always working behind the bar. Like any goodbartenders it didn't take them long to worm her story out of her. So,they were. Swallows. You probably heard that she has a little different arrangement with Bud than any of the other girls and I've offered her the same deal here."There was some grumbling at that. Word had it that C. P. Swallows gave only 40 percent of her take to the house rather than the standard 60 percent that the rest of us forked over. We knew better than to complain to Molly, though. She always made it clear that it was her business. If we didn't like the way she ran it, we were free to relocate to. Where’d you even find these, Laura?”“How do you know I didn’t find them?”“Lainy, please.”“I could’ve found them.”“I’m sure you could’ve, sweetie. You’re my little shopper.”“Well, I had to ask someone who worked at the store. I’ve ... never shopped there before, so I didn’t know where they’d be.”“When did you do that? You were with me the whole...”“It was when you were fighting with that man over the avocados.”“He was like, a few years older than us, tops. And I grabbed them first.”“He didn’t.