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  “We’ve got the whole weekend. We will go through her computer files, and review her e-mail messages. If she has had any contact with him from her office we’ll find out about it soon enough.”

  Red, who was on the other end of the line responded, “I don’t want to grab her if we don’t need to. We already have enough of a ‘containment’ problem. On the other hand, if there is any suspicion that she knows anything, especially anything that might make her talk to someone or go to the police, we need to bring her in… we just can’t risk it.”

  The first man continued, “It looks like she’s just a concerned big sister. Eventually though, she is going to go to the police if we just let her go on worrying. I don’t see how we can stop it, so I don’t see why we should wait. Let’s bring her in now before she talks to anyone.”

  “But once we grab her, then the mother will want to know what’s going on, then other people we knew nothing about and… the hole just keeps getting bigger.” Red replied.

  “Yeah, but we don’t need her for anything, we just want to shut her up. We could make it look like an accident. Then everyone she knows will simply mourn her loss, cry a few tears, but things go on and nobody looks any further. It was simply an accident.”

  “I’ll consider it, but we’re not in the business of killing people. First I want to know what you find out. Call me as soon as your guys are done with their investigation. Then we can decide how we’re going to handle this. Besides, there may be a way we can use her.”