? I took out the gagand she immediately began to beg.? Shesaid, ?please don?t rape me or hurt me.? I?ll even help you get my two sistersinstead?.?? I ...sked, ?whyshould I believe you?? You?ll just runaway to the cops after I let you go?.?She said, ?you don?t understand.? I?m the middle sister.? My older sister, Marcia, is everyone?sfavorite.? She gets everything.? She?s only15, and probably stilla virgin.? She needs to be messedup.? My younger sister Cindy is 13, and abrat and a tattletale.? She. "Connie nodded. "Our friend in there will keep warm for a while," she said. "I was thinking I needed a cup of tea anyway."Freddie raised an eyebrow. A tea break? Even he was sometimes surprised by the matter of fact way that his team approached their work. The two of them headed off towards an office where Rick and Harry, Freddie's operations director, were already waiting.The four of them sat around the office table. "Rick," said Freddie, "perhaps you can lead off on this."Rick nodded and. Whitley folded his carefully and draped them over a chair next to the table. Both men kept their brief cases besides them.Madam Suzcha picked up a tong and used it to lift the pot off of the burner. She poured an equal portion into two old jelly glasses resting near the center of the table. The _something_ bubbled for a moment in each glass, then settled down, turning a slight purplish color as it did. Madame put the pot on a wooden trivet and handed each man a glass. "Drink," she said,. ’ As it turned out, Mr. Berkowitz had asked my father to steal the diamonds. The insurance company wouldn’t pay out unless it looked like a genuine burglary. So, Dad planned everything, the idea being they would split the insurance money and resale of the stolen goods down the middle. But you can’t plan bad luck. We didn’t have the money to fight the City and, at that time in Chicago, the corruption went right up the chain of command. No career aspiring detective in his right mind would take.