The people who were suspected were arrested or put under close surveillance by the police for further examination by the security services.As the auth...rities suspected many of the agents that had been apprehended were very reluctant to do the work required of them by the Nazis, and they were being expertly blackmailed by their Nazi controllers, who knew they had relatives in occupied Europe. Non co-operation meant that their relatives were threatened with imprisonment, or being sent to. I used to own Noble Electrical Supply out of Schenectady, New York. I'd expanded what my father left me until the banks and the economy combined to make me realize that my days of running a quiet little profitable business were numbered. I'd expanded to six shops, employing quite a few people. I sold the whole thing to one of my competitors, Beard's Electric out of Albany for a very nice figure--more than what I'd expected, quite frankly. I was well-educated. I had my degree in electrical. That's when I felt the first few drops of rain.A little over a half hour later I was at the base of the mountain. It was no Everest, but the nearest cave looked about 500 feet up. The rain was coming down hard and I was soaked. The mountain was mostly dirt, which was now mostly mud. Most of the climb was made on my knees. I don't know how long it took but there were a couple of times I felt like rolling up in a ball and letting the elements have their way with me.I had just slid thirty or forty. Apparently Kent, she frowned, seeing his shoes and clothing piled in a careless heap under the sink and wondering why he should take a bath there when he always used their bathroom off the master bedroom. Coming out of the bathroom, she progressed a few steps and noticed something queer in the center of the thick carpet: Shirley's sandals. Her step quickened as she followed the trail of Shirley's clothing now apparent down the long hallway. She stepped quickly over Shirley's dress, bra, and.