Her mother was already there and they began to rehearse almost immediately. Then the police arrived. Hal's body had been found. He had been murdered. ...he entire theater was turned upside down. No one knew why. It appeared they hadn't found what they were looking for so the theater was given back to them late in the afternoon.It was a bit somber but someone decided to hold some type of 'Irish' funeral. Somehow Cornelia was able to leave early during the party. Everybody was smoking and drinking.. Denise shook her head, she didn’t want anything to do with the drug. Jim shrugged his shoulders and went to get her a drink instead. He made sure that Denise’s was a very large one. Later in the evening Denise, who’d been drinking heavily, decided she’d had enough and asked Jim to take her outside. Jim took Denise by the hand and soon after one o’clock in the morning they left the club together. Denise wasn’t walking entirely straight, but she’d maintained enough sense to know where she was. I had a pair of my grandmother’s earrings in my jewelry box. Now I don’t. You’re the only other female who lives here, what am I supposed to think?’ By now, Karla was in tears. ‘If you just listened to me, and trust me when I tell you something, maybe you would blame someone else.’ Cindy looked at me. ‘Allan, you want to back me up on this?’ I looked at both women carefully, trying to find a way to help them find common ground, but instead, something else came out. ‘Why don’t you just lay off. One second the sloop was there, and then it was gone, as something exploded inside the ship. What it was, I didn't know. We circled the burning wreckage. I listened for anyone alive, but not a sound was heard from the second ship. Then the one I had set on fire exploded, and debris went flying across the ocean.I saw movement and turned the light onto two small boats rowing away. One of the men in the second boat stood up and pointed a small cannon at me. Then he was gone as Mike killed him from.