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could get too far.  “Mr. Lynch?” the man asked as Nathaniel and Tony slowly met the man in the middle of the room.
                  “Yeah, that’s me,” Nathaniel said, expecting that he was simply getting a thank-you for the warm bed and decent meal the man was getting.
                  “My name’s Walt.  I heard that you were asking around about a woman you saw today; she was wearing a knitted hat, a green one, right?  A blonde woman?”
                  Nathaniel grinned.  “Yeah, I was.  Do you know her?”
                  “Not well, but I know her.  She tends to camp out around Frear Park, the park with the golf course,” Walt said.
                  Nathaniel nodded.  “I know the place.  What’s her name?”
                  “Don’t know her real name,” Walt said.  “Everybody just calls her Ace.”
                  “Ace?” Nathaniel questioned.
                  “She’s got an Ace of Spades tattoo, supposedly,” Walt explained.  “Never noticed it myself, but that’s why everyone calls her that.  But that’s her usual spot.”
                  Nathaniel thanked the man, and he in return thanked him for the shelter before retiring to his cot.  Nathaniel and Tony left, loading up into the rental car to head back to the hotel.  Nathaniel smiled; he didn’t have much to go on, but he had a possible location and a nickname.  At least it was something.

Chapter 7
     
                  Nathaniel was tempted to hang up and pretend that the call had been dropped, but he would get hell for that later, and he knew it.  Instead, he busied himself while his mother yelled at him by sifting through his accounts online.  He was in bed, his laptop sitting in his lap, and his phone on speakerphone by the nightstand.  His mother was still fairly irate about him ditching Eliza on their first date.
                  “Honestly, Nathaniel,” his mother droned on as he pulled up one of his checking accounts to make sure a recent payment had gone through.  “You are almost thirty years old.  You can’t keep playing around forever, and Eliza is a wonderful woman.  You did not even give her a chance.  And you were so rude!  I mean, she took it like a true lady, but you did not even bother calling her back after running out like that.  I just don’t understand what could possibly drive a person to behave this way.  Your father would be-”
                  “Mom, I swear to God, if you bring Dad into this I’m hanging up right now,” Nathaniel hissed, and she bit her tongue.
                  “All right, Nathaniel, all right,” she huffed.  “But I’m still serious.  You can’t keep acting this way.  It’s not healthy.  You have to grow up sometime, son.”
                  “I own a multi-billion-dollar company, and I still get lectures from my mother about not being mature enough,” Nathaniel huffed.  “Fine.  Would it make you feel better if I apologized to Eliza?”
                  “I want you to do it in person,” she said, pushing her luck.
                  Nathaniel shook his head.  “Fine.  Fine, Mom.  I will apologize in person to Eliza.  But I’m going to be gone for two weeks, so it’ll have to wait until I get back to California.”
                  “That’s fine by me.  You can apologize to the woman and take her to dinner,” she said.  “You owe her an actual date.”
                  “Is she even that upset?” Nathaniel questioned.  “Or are you just the one who’s upset?”
                  “Nathaniel, honestly!” his mother snarled.  “I am so tired of going round and round with you.  I’m going to bed.  I’m tired of all of this back and forth.”
                  “Well goodnight, then,” he