. He pulled the blanket up to her waist, and tucked it around her legs. She was sitting up so he took another towel and dried her hair for her with it...Jack walked to the dresser and opened the top drawer. He took out a hair brush, a comb, and a small hand-held mirror. He went back over to the bed and sat down. Ariel turned so her back was to him, and he began brushing her long shiny hair. He wanted her to be very happy in every way, so he thought that she might enjoy having him brush her hair. Early on when Katie started missing dinners and seeing them in the morning they started out fussy and hard to deal with. But the longer it went on they got used to seeing only me in their little lives and they adjusted. It only took three months before that happened.That night they went down without a fuss after they were fed. I sat in the living room at 7:30 after putting the kids down early and waited for Katie.I thought she might like to visit with them, but after seven I realized that that. I thought like everywhere the age to drive was 16. If I had known that I would have tried to get my parents to move to Idaho! Driving at 14 would have been bitching!”“Well, when you live where we did it was a huge help. It was a 30 minute drive or a longer on the schoolbus to get to school, and you may be waiting almost an hour in the snow in the winter. And it is a lot further North, so winter nights can start at 4 in the evening, and last until almost 8 in the morning. At least I was able to. That would get you off the mountain and out of his way. Then he would have an unobstructed shot at the mountain.”“We got that part already, Chuck. We knew that when the charges were dropped.”“That was only half of his plan Matt. You already know about the spotted lynx fur?”Suzy and I looked at each other. Suzy spoke up. “Mr. Dupree, you aren’t supposed to know about that. Matt and I are the only ones. Other than St. Gaudens, that is.”“Yes, I suppose that from your viewpoint, that would be true..