As Laura said to all new members, “There may not be a scientific explanation for them... yet... but that doesn’t mean they don’t work.”One of ...hose practices that seemed to have some efficacy was the “Witches’ Sabbath.” That practice can be traced to the Dark Night celebrations held in Ireland, Wales, and to some extent, in England in the old days. Dark Night was a time of renewal. Everything was made new. Homes and barns and storage areas were totally cleaned. Fires were extinguished and. Tristram Horner shivered, trussed up in the passenger seat.The vicious criminal organisation run out of St. Petersburg by theRodchenko family. They controlled the drug lines into the whole ofNorthern Europe. What had he got mixed up in? He was just a low levelfixer for the European organisations. Photography, surveillance, forgery,to supplement his legitimate Private Investigation business.Earlier, on the roadside, Bond had only been able to break one of hisfingers before Horner had broken down. " She stopped and turnedand faced him, putting her hand under his chin and raising it untilhe looked her in their eye. "Remember, Bebe, you are a fourteen yearold child. Your mom and big sisters make decisions for you all thetime. Connie text me without talking to the girls. This is asurprise for them, too. They don't even know you're coming."She was right. John had not chosen his own food, clothes, agenda,bedtime or anything else since Monday morning. He looked and actedlike Bianca and he was. My call concluded, I filled Ashley in on the good news. She had more news, yet. Her brother Bobbie had asked around, and, since for some reason he felt the need to spend the night in his car, outside my (and his sister, Ashley’s) home, spent that time learning that our departed friend, Tim, had no living family. All his associates (in Bobbie’s opinion, folks in Tim’s circle did not really have “friends”, as you and I understand the term) were intoxicated louts, and had serious difficulty.