He wished that both the camera and the lighting had been better. ‘If it occurred in the daytime instead of the middle of the night... ‘Sighing in ...frustration, he popped the tape out and put in the tape from the Emergency Room Parking Lot security camera and pressed ‘play’.‘Okay, here comes Frank in Béla’s red Viper. It makes a circle in the center of the almost empty lot – Is he looking for something, or someone? – then he parks under a burnt out lamp near the edge of the camera’s viewing. We talked for a bit and got to know that we were staying in the same hotel. And he was getting married in that hotel.We met in the hotel lobby. She looked stunning as any bride would look 1 week before her wedding. We were meeting after 10 years, and she was excited at another level to see me. We talked for about 2-3 hours that day. I even had dinner with Ashwini and her would-be husband.He looked okay, and he was also an NRI. They both invited me out of courtesy to their wedding and the. Heinrich,’ I said, ‘that you told me you had once lived in my house. The old Reinart place out on Highway 11?’ ‘Why, yes,’ the woman replied in her quavering voice, ”twas back in the early 30s. I was just a young girl, but always had fond memories o’ that place. Hated to move to Tulsa, but when the crops all failed we had to.’ ‘I’m interested in tracing the history of the house, it being so old and all. Did you know the Reinart family that built it?’ ‘Oh, yes, everbody knew everbody in those. . what if I can’t resist him?”“Does Chester want you to resist him?”“No, but ... it’s not right!““Chester seems to think it’s fine.”She closed her eyes and put her fists in them, ruining her makeup, as tears came. She didn’t know what to do! A sob escaped her throat, and she felt shame, crying in front of this stranger.“Hey,” came his soft voice from right in front of her. “Don’t cry. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. I didn’t know you were that disgusted by all this.”She took her hands away.
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