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for such a purpose with a few renovations. – I have also heard University gossip that Miss Saxe has been contacting a number of former teachers in her search for housing.”
    “Fax me the pictures of the chicken house and the loan specifications,” Pirtle said immediately.  “I’ll get a private investigator right on this and get back to you. – If my little lady needs a new home that badly, I’ll make the loan for it out of my own funds.”
    Dina McGee was waiting up in the Big House kitchen for Farris when he tottered in one night about 10:00 PM.  “Sit down right here,” she commanded.  “You aren’t going anywhere until you explain why you’re letting Miss Clarice leave at the end of the month.”
    Farris slumped down in the indicated chair and stared at her with eyes like soft-boiled eggs.  “You don’t know how much I hate this,” he said through cracked lips.  “I’m giving up everything I’ve ever wanted, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get it back. – Dina, you must have realized Clarice has a bad case of Mother Dominance to handle.”
    “I didn’t know it was that bad,” the older woman responded.  “Clarice has certainly perked up since we’ve had her.”
    “Marion Saxe has noticed that, too, thanks to the financial advice Terry gave the poor girl.”  Farris laid his head on his folded arms.  “The woman’s put a private detective on us; I’m just fortunate my staff is loyal. – Anyway, the old harridan has just about decided she’ll force Clarice to marry somebody on the place, then sell up her realty business and move in on us. – That realty business has gone to crap, anyway.  Marion’s holding it together on a shoestring.”
    “So the lady you love comes with a built-in problem.”  Dina summed the matter up in her practical way.
    “And I’m behaving in the manner recommended by therapists,” Farris told her.  “We’ve agreed it is her problem, and I’m sending her home to solve it. – I just know that personal problems like that often don’t get solved.”
    “Yes.”  Dina thinned her lips.  “I’ve known plenty who’ve tried to solve the toxic relationship problem with pills and repeated spells in rehab.”
    “When I studied psychology in college,” Farris continued almost unwillingly, “we learned why most relationship problems don’t get solved. – Nobody really wants to solve them, because everybody’s getting some comfort or perks from the current situation.  That’s why I won’t marry Clarice here and now.  I don’t know if I’ll ever get her back.”
    “I’ve sort of edged around the subject with her,” Dina admitted, “and I think she’d rather cut her own throat than gift you with her problem.”
    Farris rose wearily.  “That’s why I have nightmares, Dina.  I’m going to have a detective in place down there to watch what happens, but I daren’t do any more.”
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 6
     
    Clarice researched Tennessee law online and managed to retain a local attorney in her hometown.  In truth, there were not many legal options for a person in her situation.  Restraining orders, temporary or permanent, were worthless papers for the oppressed.  The only factor in her favor was Marion’s tendency to fly off the handle; that would undoubtedly give the authorities local grounds to take some kind of action.
    At her request, Farris pulled many strings with the private pilots who operated in the area and found someone who would agree to fly her home.  Both were sure that Marion was carefully watching airline reservations through her contacts with travel agencies.  A confrontation at some point was certain.  Thankfully, Clarice had taken all her art necessities with her to Kentucky; there would be no going back to her dear little apartment. During their final weeks, the couple spent most of their time together, but it wasn’t until the last night that they finally made love. Farris had come to visit her,