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engineer and works part-time at the Home Builders Depot. He’ll graduate next spring, possibly as early as December of this year. Now you know as much as I know.” Pearl sagged in her chair as fresh tears rolled down her cheeks. No one rushed to comfort her.
    “Is there a landline at the cottage?” Charles asked.
    “No. They just have the special cells we gave them, and they are monitored. I haven’t had a chance to check with our people. This all happened so quick, and the top priority was to clear the clinic. No one is going to talk, I can guarantee that.”
    Kathryn leaned across the table. “Now how hard was that?”
    “Let me tell you something, Kathryn, it was damn hard. I feel like I betrayed my own mother. I gave my word; I took an oath to all the people I try to protect. With my life if I have to. Don’t you dare judge me. Don’t you dare!”
    “I would never judge you, Pearl. That’s for you to do yourself. By not talking, you are the one who is putting the lives of your people in danger. We were not asking you to announce anything to the world at large, just to the people you came to for help. You did the right thing by telling us what we need to know,” Kathryn said. Then, because Kathryn was Kathryn, she had to add, “Besides, it was time for you to come off that high horse you rode in here on.”
    Pearl didn’t trust herself to say anything, so she kept quiet and simply nodded. She did, however, reach across the table to shake Kathryn’s hand.
    “Charles, for the third time, what’s for dinner?” Kathryn demanded.
    “Ah, yes, dinner. How does spaghetti and meatballs sound? Fergus made bread this morning, that crusty Italian you love so much, Kathryn. And fresh peach ice cream. I was up early this morning and at the farmers’ market for the first load of peaches. I’m not going to guarantee the spaghetti and meatballs because Annie and Myra called in their order a little late in the day. I do guarantee that it will be tasty, though.”
    He looked at his watch, and said, “Fergus and I will go topside and you all can stay here and strategize if you like. Dinner will be in an hour.”
    The others looked at one another and by nods agreed to stay in the war room to talk and try to work out a plan.
    Dennis West whispered in Harry’s ear. “Harry, what do you think about Lincoln Moss?”
    “What I think, kid, is the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
    “Yeah, yeah, that’s what I think too. Oh, boy, this promises to be a thrill a minute, don’t you agree, Harry?”
    “Oh, yeah,” Harry drawled.

Chapter 3
    C harles looked across the room at the bank of clocks that gave the time all over the world. It was 6:00 A.M . in Virginia. He was tired, but it was a good kind of tired. He and Fergus had worked through the night, with only two short breaks up in the kitchen for coffee, just to stay awake.
    “I think we’re done here, Fergus. We need to decompress, shower, snatch a few hours of sleep, eat something, and be back down here by ten. Does that work for you?”
    Fergus sighed. Charles would get no argument from him. He was bone tired. He’d had no real idea until now how Charles and the Vigilantes worked. Now he knew what went into a mission, and he was glad to be a part of it. He crossed his fingers, the way he had when he was a child, that he could keep up. He stapled the last packet he’d just taken out of the printer and slipped it into a bright blue folder. They were ready to be handed out to the girls once the morning meeting got under way.
    “You going home or staying here, Fergus?” Charles asked, as they mounted the moss-covered steps that let them out of the dungeon and up to the main part of the house.
    “I’m going home. Annie went back home last night because she said she had a lot of thinking to do and wanted to sleep in her own bed. I’ll come back with her for the meeting.
    “Charles, do you think Pearl can hold it together. She seemed pretty fragile to me