Anyway, just before we took off from Logan Airport in Boston she got on the plane and sat down beside me ... we were the only two people in our row. S...e told me she was deadheading—that’s taking a flight back to Heathrow before getting ready to make a return flight to the states ... said she was on a mini-vacation in the states and had to get back to London to start her cycle again. When it came to mealtime she went back to the kitchen and came back with two first-class meals, crystal glasses,. That seemed to satisfy him. Gene might not have wanted to compete, but after spending more than twenty years not being allowed to be the leader, Larry was ready to show what he could do.The other problem was with the compensation package both brothers were being offered. I had long since discovered that all the Macklinson family knew exactly how much any other Macklinson was making. Kyle and Billy Ray were both earning more than I was offering to Larry or Gene. Phil was making slightly more now. Thinking that the zippo looked fairly cool, he decided to pocket it, along with the note and turned around to leave before a member of the haunted house staff tried to stop him. Thinking that it would be quicker to leave by going back around towards the entrance, Jack quickly made his way back to the front. *** Arriving just before the entrance door, Jack walked past a couple of kids that looked like they’d been frozen in fright by whatever extravagant thing the haunted house had thrown at. The girls that had not been chosen had no idea what had happened the night before, but they did know something had happened.Debbie was the first to demand an explanation saying, "What happened last night; I was wide awake reading a book and I remember an egg being thrown and the next thing I know it's now? Who threw that egg, what was it all about?" It was the Mistress of Pain," Le-Ann said excitedly, "she kidnapped us and took us to her lair!" The Mistress," Katrina said, casting a doubtful.