” Handing Annie to Sloan, Spencer opened the kitchen door leading to the back porch, then stepped out and pulled it closed behind him. A few minutes...later he came back in.“Well no one is out there now but those flowers you planted under the window say someone was there. They are all smashed. We need to call the Sheriff and file a report. The good news is that the camera out there should give the police a good description of him. Let’s call the sheriff and get this over with.”Annie sat next to. ”“That’s why we got all the beaded hangings and stuff,” Paul continued. “And of course, we can’t really do ... what you just thought maybe we were doing. That would be illegal and besides, we’re just kids.”“Yeah,” Paula finished, “but what we can do is take a lot of sugar cubes and put a drop of food color on each one and PRETEND it’s ... what you just thought maybe it was. Then we can eat one and pretend ... well here I’ll show you.”With that the little girl picked up a blue-dotted sugar cube. Still they entered through thatopen ramp.There was nothing there, no sign of struggle, no hasty attempts to getout. No fire damage. Nothing. The parachutes were still in the webbingsecuring them to the wall. The sea water dripping from them still. Thesurvival raft still in its security netting beside the door.Captain Petrovski leaned down and picked up a water logged cigarettefrom the cockpits deck plates that was half burned away. "Who smoked?"he asked noting that it was an American brand."Our. ”Matt laughed at the comment. “I’ll tell my staff to never was that shirt every again.” She blushed at him and tried to think of something cleaver to say but because her head was pounding she couldn’t think of anything cleaver. “Can I get you something to eat?” Came from the butler.Steph sort of saw him come up but because she was massaging her head he still made her jump. “If you have some espresso and some toast would be great. Oh and can I get some aspirin?” The butler went off back into the.