We had figured out that all I had to do was to leave a pouch of money on the front porch or veranda in front of the front door and it would be found. ...Based on what I was able to learn, everybody was being hit with that same $16 tax, so that was what I was leaving at a house in the middle of the night. I figured that it would be found the next morning, and I would not be connected with the gift. Anybody too stupid to figure out what the $16 was for was beyond help, and I did not worry about it.. Jeffrey almost felt bad about the way she must be feeling, but he reasoned, she was a professional and should have expected this at some point. Late Saturday morning, Melanie was returning to her flat, from posting a letter home. Jeffrey was parked close to the front entrance of her building, leaning against the hood of his Jag. Melanie felt her face turning crimson, once more. So you werent home. Here I thought you were ignoring my ringing your bell, Jeffrey said with a Cheshire cat grin. Why. Your heart hammers in your head, your cheeks flush, your mouth is dry. All you can think of is how you want to take this girl, and how lucky you are that she wants it; but, it's not true. Is it? She’s an attractive young girl at least ten years your junior. What would she want with a stuffy old man?Suddenly it hits you: you know her. It can’t be true, but it makes sense; she’s the right age. Kalli? Impossible! Kalli was sent to boarding school in San Diego; last you’d heard she was in. It had been three weeks that she had lain here, wired to all kinds of machines and little more then a sleeping child. No one knew what had happened in that cabin except her, and to be honest, no one really cared. Even the FBI had the attitude that the case was closed. He was glad that everyone felt that way, because he sure didn’t. He wouldn’t feel like it was over until she woke up and told him she loved him. God, he wanted her to wake up in the worse way, he missed her something awful..