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Myron shook his head. No time for this now. 'So what happened after you bestowed your stellar counsel upon Kathy?' He tried to shrug but couldn't pull it off. 'She looked at me funny, as though I had betrayed her when all I was trying to do was help. Or maybe she saw in my words the same thing you did. I don't know. She stood up then and said that she would be back tomorrow morning to press charges. Then she left. I never heard from her again until that magazine came in the mail. And the phone call a few nights ago.' 'What phone call?' A few nights ago, very late, I got a phone call. A female voice - maybe Kathy's, maybe not said, "Enjoy the magazine. Come and get me. I survived."' 185 '"Come and get me, I survived"?' 'Something like that, yes.' 'What did she mean?' 'I haven't the slightest idea.' 'What did you think when you first heard about Kathy's disappearance?' 'That she ran away. Decided it was all too much.
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