They were still inseparable.So when the chance came for Jordan to be a manufacturing engineer in aneedle processing plant on the other side of the cou...try, they bothjumped at the offer of making double what he was making now. Even though they both had very successful jobs at 24 years of age, madegood money and most importantly they enjoyed what they did. This was anoffer that they couldn't pass up.Anna had lined up a weeks worth of job interviews. And although it hadtaken a couple of weeks,. The picnic lunch, provided by the school kitchen, would be brought out after the heat of the games, and consumed at long wooden tables set up for that purpose down by the little creek that bordered the vast school property.Tim and Bennie wandered despondently from game to game, greeting the boys with whom they were friendly, and being greeted by their teachers, all of whom admired the twin honor students. Mr. Boyse was in charge of organizing the three-legged race, and the twins wandered past. They also reminded him that he had to hire another guard to replace the one who was killed that morning. Once they were through talking to the manager, they ate supper and started making the rounds of the saloons looking for Jim Baker.The bartender in the third saloon they visited said, "Yeah, Jim spent a lot of time in my place, but I ain't seen 'im lately. In fact, fer the past month, he ain't been around much, no more than two or three times in the last four weeks. I don't rightly know where. Someone at the desk looked up and was completely ignored as she charged her way up the stairs. One step at a time, two steps at a time. All the way up to the third floor. Two more steps, one more step. She jumped the last step and sailed into the hall, hurrying past a boy who stopped to stare at her sudden, disheveled appearance. Down the hall Matt's door was cracked, left open for her after the text exchange.With a firm push the door swung open. She caught it before it hit the wall, slammed it.