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us everything,” Young said. “They murdered seven women in New Haven before any of the Islesboro killings.”
    â€œGood God! Did they confess to all the Islesboro crimes?”
    â€œYes. It helped that I told them we had Esme’s diary. Have you heard anything about that from Lance’s people?”
    â€œLance had a call from Langley. They’ve recovered a lot of writing that we thought was unrecoverable. It would nail them for the Islesboro murders, even without the confessions.”
    â€œGood. Funny, they didn’t even ask for a lawyer; they asked for a psychiatrist.”
    â€œI don’t think the Supreme Court would require you to give them a shrink,” Stone said. “And their crazy act won’t hold up when you testify that you heard me suggest it to them.”
    â€œThat was a good move, Stone.”
    â€œIt was either that or get shot at, and I was in the front seat. Did they say how they got into Dick’s house?”
    â€œThat was easy; their father had two keys, and he only returned one to Stone. They knew the alarm code, too. Caleb had sent them over there once to pick up something he’d left in the house.”
    â€œIt sounds like you’ve wrapped it up then.”
    â€œI believe we have.”
    â€œDo you need us here for anything else?”
    â€œNo, I’ll be in touch when I do.”
    â€œThen we’re off to New York in a few minutes.”
    â€œYour airplane engine all right?”
    â€œIt did fine on the flight back from Rockland.”
    â€œThen have a safe flight. Good-bye and thank you again.”
    â€œThank you, Sergeant. Bye.” Stone hung up. “Let’s get out of here,” he said to his assembled group.
    â€œYou had enough of Maine?” Ed Rawls asked.
    â€œFor this summer,” Stone replied, shaking his hand. “Maybe I’ll be back next summer, if nobody is getting dead up here.”
    Two minutes later, Stone locked the door, got into the station wagon with Dino, Holly and Lance and was driven away.

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