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Date Posted: 03:38:15 08/13/03 Wed
Author: Wanda
Author Host/IP: 216.51.254.249
Subject: Second Generation - Part #33

PART #33

Alfonso De Nato pulled up at Hollingsworth’s bank after the bank had closed. He knew that Hollingsworth would be waiting inside for a report on the day’s findings. He wasn’t sure Hollingsworth was going to want to hear what he had to tell him. In fact, he figured he would fly into a rage. He wondered what it was going to take to prove to that man he would not be able to continue to control his daughter’s life.

Alfonso had been in a car outside Anthony’s Bar and Grill that morning and saw Boudreau and Lucia together. Something had happened between the two of them for she had run out of the place crying. He had watched Boudreau chase after her as she ran down the street. He could have dropped him there but he hated to kill him when Lucia was in a close proximity. He watched Boudreau take her into his arms, and try to calm her down. Perhaps they had a quarrel, but it was obvious that they had made up for they walked hand in hand back to Anthony’s.

As he sat there with a newspaper held in front of his face, he had been surprised to see the District Attorney and Police Chief walk out of Anthony’s Bar and Grill. They got into a car, and left. Quite sometime later Boudreau came out with his parents, and they got into a car to leave. Finally, Lucia came out to the car, and Alfonso saw that Lenore was with her. He wondered if all this was coincidental. It wasn’t for him to decide though. He would relay the information to Hollingsworth; and let him sift through it, and make his decision...

Hollingsworth let Alfonso into the bank; and they walked to his office to talk. Alfonso sat down at the desk in Hollingsworth’s office, and gave a port of the events that took place at Anthony’s Bar and Grill. He was right about him flying into a rage. He struck his fist on the desk; and said, “The sooner that young man is dead, the better it will be.” Alfonso said, “I could have gotten him today, but I didn’t think you would want me to shoot him that close to your daughter.” Hollingsworth thought about the information that Alfonso gave him; and said, “You say that Lenore was with Lucia?” “Yes, that is what I said,” remarked Alfonso. “I also saw Boudreau’s parents there. They left together, than Lucia and Lenore left.”

Hollingsworth said, “Something is not right here. I was not informed of any type of meeting with those people. Why would Lenore and Lucia meet with Boudreau and his parents, and I not be told of this meeting?” Alfonso said, “Maybe they didn’t meet together. It could have been a coincidence that they happened to be there at the same time. You never know, it may have been something that came up suddenly.” Hollingsworth remarked, “I don’t like this situation at all,” “Something doesn’t seem right.” He looked at Alfonso; and said, “I want this job done as soon as you can get it done, do you understand me?” “Yes, Sir, I do understand you,” said Alfonso.

Hollingsworth drove home from the bank feeling there was something going on between his wife and daughter and the La Faye family. He knew he was going to get to the bottom of this situation. He pulled into the driveway, and walked up the steps to the house. When he walked through the door, the butler took his hat and walking stick; and told him his dinner was waiting for him. He said Lenore and Lucia were working on a project in Lenore’s bedroom.

He instructed the butler to tell Cook he would be down later to eat his dinner. What project was Lenore and Lucia working on in Lenore’s bedroom? He was going to check it out, and see what he could learn about their day. He walked up the stairs and down the hall to Lenore’s room. Without knocking, he walked into the room and found the women working on assembling a large puzzle. Both women looked up and spoke to Hollingsworth warmly. He pulled up a chair; and asked, “What did the two of you do today?”

When he asked the question, an alarm sounded to Lenore. She knew they had been seen. She smiled; and said, “We were invited for coffee this morning by Boudreau’s mother. When we got to the restaurant she had chosen, we were surprised to find that Boudreau and his father were with her. We would have called you had we known the three of them would have been there together. I am sure you would have enjoyed getting to know Boudreau and his family better.”

Lucia continued to look for puzzle pieces; and thought, “I can’t look at him; my face will give away my feelings.” She was amazed at her mother’s ability to sound so normal in her conversation. She thought to herself, “Mother has been down this road before; she’s good, really good at this.” It was all that Lucia could do to keep from jumping up, and screaming at her father. Something strange happened as she sat there; a sweet calmness came over her. She thought of the danger for her mother from this man; and she knew she must do as her mother was doing to buy them some time.

Hollingsworth stormed, “I don’t understand people who set up meetings for everyone in the family but the husband and father. I think this was the poorest of poor judgment on the part of those people. Don’t they realize this is rude behavior? Lenore smiled; and said, “Hollingsworth, I am sure they realize that a man of your position is extremely busy, and couldn’t be bothered with such trivial stuff as going out for some conversation and a coffee.”

Hollingsworth watched Lenore to see if he could pick up on anything that might be suspicious. He also watched Lucia who seemed very intent on putting a puzzle together. He said, “Lucia, why don’t you come down, and sit with me while I eat?” Lucia smiled; and said, “Daddy, you know how I love to work on puzzles; we are really into the good part now of putting this together. May I beg off leaving now?”

Hollingsworth went downstairs by himself, and sat alone to eat his dinner. He couldn’t understand why Lucia had turned him down.

To be continued...

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