’ ‘Josh says some Police up here are on the take. Any involvement with local and he’ll find out.’ ‘Thanks for the tip. It will take a while ...o set up and get a fresh team up there then. But as soon as we do, any movement he makes and we’ll have him.’ * The young Polish girl lay curled up in bed, the chain around her ankle keeping her fixed to the heavy iron bed frame, just a couple of feet of chain allowing her a little movement, but not enough to leave the vicinity of the bed and to reach. “How long were you in LA?” Terry asked.“I did three years at UCLA and two years with an architectural firm before returning to the Island.”“So why did you come back, I thought LA was supposed to be a hot town.”“Let’s just say it got too hot for me,” Pearl replied.“Oh how do you mean?”“I had a couple of bad experiences there,” Pearl paused thinking before going on, “in the last year at UCLA I had a boyfriend who was on the football team. Well, we used to get a little wild, along with the booze,. Bonnie couldn’t believe he’d taken her pants down! And that she had permitted him to do it in front of her house, in broad daylight! Her mind screamed for her to stop him, but she couldn’t. Her body was on fire and all she seemed able to do was hang on to him and lash her tongue in his mouth while he did awful, wonderful things to her. She felt his hands go to her bare bottom and lift her, then her flesh contacted the smooth, warm, metal of the hood of her car. After he placed the woman on her. .." "...And I'm Maggie Schmitt, with two t's." They giggled like school k**s about having similar names. During their conversation, the snowfall had increased. Maggie grabbed his arm and huddled against his shoulder as they resumed their walk towards the pub at a quickened pace. The owner showed surprise when they entered together. He seated them at a corner table by the gas fireplace. He recommended the schnitzel special and brought pints of a German Pilsner. The couple lingered over dinner, a.