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Date Posted: 06:11:34 08/10/03 Sun
Author: Wanda
Author Host/IP: 216.51.254.249
Subject: Second Generation - Part #28

PART #28

Boudreau walked into the room as his parents were talking about the meeting for the following morning. Bow said, “Boudreau, I need to talk to you about Lenore and Lucia. Lenore has talked to the District Attorney and the Chief of Police about Hollingsworth. They now have enough evidence to arrest him. It is going to be necessary for Lenore and Lucia to be somewhere safe before all this takes place. Since Lucia does not know about her father’s involvement in crime, she does not have a clue that it was her father who hired someone to have you killed. Lenore is going to try to get Lucia to come with her tomorrow morning. She would like for her to meet with the District Attorney and the Police Chief. We would like for you to be there too, for we think maybe Lucia will take the information better if she knows you are aware of all that her father has done. Will you go?”

Boudreau said, “Dad, I don’t believe you realize how difficult this will be for Lucia to hear. I know how much she loves her father. Hollingsworth has spent years of his life doting on her. He would do almost anything for her, except for letting her have her own life. If you are wondering how she will accept this news; I have a feeling she won’t be able to absorb it.”

Bow said, “There has to be something to help her to see this clearly.” Boudreau aid, “Dad I know you must be right, but at the moment I am not sure what that would be. If you really think it would help for me to be there, I will go. I know she is going to need all the support she can get.”

That night a train was rumbling down the tracks with a destination of St. Louis. On this train sat a rumpled looking man with a hacking cough. Because he sounded so bad, people tried to avoid his presence. That was just fine with him for he didn’t want to have to sit around, and talk to anyone about the weather. The cough had become so well developed over the years, that Peter was able to convince anyone in close proximity he was terribly ill.

Peter was feeling sorry for himself. He could not understand why so many things had gone wrong in his life. There was much resentment in his heart toward Bow and Catherine La Faye. Every time he thought of that woman, he seethed with anger. He had worked hard at obtaining the Le Bleu plantation, only to have it snatched out from under him by a woman who had been married to Joshua Sallier for a period of four hours. She didn’t deserve what he had worked so hard to get.

He also thought of her husband who had been the son of a notorious pirate. What had he ever done to deserve the Le Bleu plantation? He was smart enough to marry the woman who had obtained it through a four hour marriage. Life had been so unfair to Peter.

As the train rolled on toward St. Louis, Peter thought of Hollingsworth Deverall. He was the man with the power and money in Lake Charles. What had gone wrong there? So, he was unable to kill Boudreau La Faye the first time. He would have managed to complete the task if he had been given the chance. What was Hollingsworth’s problem? Did he fear that Peter was going to upset things for him at Lake Charles? The longer Peter thought about it, the more he fumed. He had a good mind to go back to Lake Charles; and walk right into the police station, and tell them he had some information for them. Yes, perhaps that is exactly what he would do. He had been mistreated enough, and it was time for those people in Lake Charles to know he was not going to endure anymore. Peter made the decision to return to Lake Charles.

As the train approached St. Louis, Peter was working out a plan in his mind. He was going to go back, walk into the police station, ask for the police chief, and tell him he had some pertinent information for him. He would say he knew a man by the name of Alfonso De Nato who had been hired as a hit man to kill Boudreau La Faye. When the police would question him about the case, he would say, “Hollingsworth Deverall hired the hit man.” He worked all the details out in his mind and thought of every possible scenario. They would ask him, “How do you know this?” Peter thought, “I will tell them Alfonso had been drinking, and bragging about the assigned task of killing Boudreau La Faye. I can tell them I thought it was my civic duty to inform them.”

Peter thought about all the questions they might ask, “Why have you waited to tell us?” Peter would say, “I was fearful of Hollingsworth Deverall. I have been told he is into organized crime; and you know what those people do when you tell something that would get them into trouble with the law. But, the more I thought about it I knew I couldn’t sit back, and allow an innocent person to be killed.”

By the time the train had rolled into St. Louis, Peter had spent hours hacking, and thinking about his plan. When he reached St. Louis, he got off the train, went to the ticket counter; and purchased another ticket for Lake Charles.

To be continued...

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