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triplets. When you and Julia were kidnapped when you were three, it was in all of the papers. When you two were united with your grandmother, when you were sixteen, it was in the papers too.”
    She quit talking and I sat there in a state of shock. Tracy came back pulling Rena with her. “Did you call for backup, Judith?”
    “No, ” I said. I was listening to Ms. Matthew’s confession.”
    Tracy groaned. “Judith, first you call for backup, then you wait until her Miranda rights have been read, then you take her confession.”
    She looked around, “Where is the gun?”
    I laid the baby down on the floor and picked up the gun and handed it to her. Tracy shook her head. She held the gun on the two who were seated on the sofa while she picked up the phone and called for backup.
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 8
    T he two women were put into two separate cars. After notifying Huck and waiting for him to arrive, Tracy left for the agency and Huck and I stayed with the mother and newborn until the mother’s husband and mother came to take him home.
    Huck was mad at us for going off on our own without backup but he didn’t say much until his boss was gone. I had to bear the brunt of his anger alone but I didn’t mind and promised him it wouldn’t happen again.
    When I got to the agency, Tracy was coming out of an interview room. “They both confessed,” she said. “I interviewed each of them separately and I think they’re being upfront. I believe them when they say this is the only time they’ve done something like this.
    “Ms. Matthews said that about a year ago a woman who looked like you came to see her and demanded to know all about you and Julia. She had seen the announcement about your involvement in helping bring down the pedophile ring the year before.
    “She had gotten the truth out of her parents and she was furious. When she got the truth out of Ms. Matthews, she pulled a gun and robbed them. She told them that if they called the cops she would tell them what they did, how they sold her to the Limicks in Tulsa.”
    “I’m worried about how Mimi’s going to take this,” I said. “And I’m still so worried about Ben.”
    She took my hand and squeezed it, “Why don’t you go on home, Judith. We can handle this here.”
    I took her up on her offer and Huck took me home. I needed to get all my tires fixed and called AAA. They took care of it right away and by mid-afternoon I had my wheels. The problem was that I didn’t have any direction as to where to go. I spent the rest of the day with Mimi, Brad, and Jesse. We watched a cartoon together on TV until Mark came in and Tracy right behind him.
    We waited until after supper to have a meeting. Jesse took Brad upstairs to get him ready for bed and we settled in the front living room where we always gathered for adult talk.
    “I think you and I should go to Tulsa, Judith,” Tracy began, “Along with Huck, of course. We’ll leave Jake here to guard the rest of the household. I want us to question the Limicks and see if they have any idea where their daughter could be.”
    I was torn between staying in Houston , in case Ben came back, or going with them. I didn’t know where to look so I decided going with them would be my best choice.
    We left early the next morning and flew into Tulsa. After checking into a hotel Huck drove us in the rental car. Tracy had the address she had gotten from Ms. Matthews and had picked up a map at the rental company at the airport.
    The nice young lady who rented the car to us had highlighted our route in red. The house was a ways outside of Tulsa and there were no neighbors around for miles.
    It was a medium-sized white frame house with a wrap-around porch. It looked run down and didn’t look like a house someone would live in who had bought a baby for five hundred thousand dollars.
    There were Dicky birds in the field out back but they weren’t pumping any oil. As Mark would say, “The Dickybirds weren’t singing.”
    We got