Nobody wanted me to go to Toronto.<\/p>\n
That included me.<\/p>\n
The ticket was bait.<\/p>\n
Too obvious to be anything else.<\/p>\n
One-way.<\/p>\n
False surname.<\/p>\n
Instructions built around family history.<\/p>\n
George Ross.<\/p>\n
Not Bennett.<\/p>\n
A manufactured identity waiting to swallow me.<\/p>\n
Anna studied the printout longer than anyone.<\/p>\n
Then asked:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy Ross?\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna tapped the paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Laura wanted George invisible, she could choose any name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRoss makes the message personal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut also traceable.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
Anyone investigating our family would connect Ross immediately.<\/p>\n
Not a good disappearance identity.<\/p>\n
A symbolic one.<\/p>\n
Meaning the ticket itself might not be practical.<\/p>\n
It might be theatrical.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone wants us thinking about family patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen joined by video.<\/p>\n
She had been tracing Laura.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura is real. Flight is real. Passport record attached to the reservation appears fabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo she expects me to show up and fail security?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo occupy us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor said, \u201cWhile B-17 moves.\u201d<\/p>\n
That made more sense.<\/p>\n
Distract the legal hinge.<\/p>\n
Tie up police.<\/p>\n
Send everyone toward an airport while money disappears elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Mercer agreed.<\/p>\n
He coordinated with federal financial investigators.<\/p>\n
The Canadian institution received emergency freeze notices.<\/p>\n
If valid.<\/p>\n
If processed fast enough.<\/p>\n
The test transfers stopped.<\/p>\n
Temporarily.<\/p>\n
Laura had not yet moved the principal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen she needs something else,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe master schedule?\u201d Elizabeth asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe already stole Caroline\u2019s copies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut not the original.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had it.<\/p>\n
Locked in police evidence.<\/p>\n
She could not reach it easily.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does the original contain that copies might not?\u201d<\/p>\n
William knew.<\/p>\n
He was in custody.<\/p>\n
Mercer brought him into a secure interview by video.<\/p>\n
William looked furious.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lost Caroline\u2019s files.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone stole them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
He froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDiane\u2019s daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s established.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I knew her before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard introduced us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hired her to digitize old trust records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course Dad knew her too.<\/p>\n
Every thread touched him eventually.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout four years before he died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she access?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cScans. Ledgers. old backups.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cB-17?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she know my twenty-fifth birthday mattered?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo she\u2019s been waiting too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
William looked genuinely worried.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura hated all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDiane told her everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret\u2019s assistant had watched decades from the edge.<\/p>\n
Like Marian.<\/p>\n
Like Helen.<\/p>\n
Women positioned near powerful men who assumed clerical work meant invisibility.<\/p>\n
Diane knew.<\/p>\n
Maybe more than Margaret realized.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Diane tell Laura?\u201d<\/p>\n
William answered:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat her father lost everything because of B-17.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was Laura\u2019s father?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The name meant nothing to me.<\/p>\n
Victor recognized it.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer Investments.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the firms that collapsed during the old losses.<\/p>\n
William looked down.<\/p>\n
Thomas Mercer was an external investor whose clients lost millions when Edward and William diverted funds.<\/p>\n
He was blamed.<\/p>\n
Sued.<\/p>\n
Bankrupted.<\/p>\n
Died by suicide years later.<\/p>\n
Diane married him after leaving Margaret\u2019s office briefly, then returned to work because she needed income.<\/p>\n
Laura grew up believing her father caused the collapse.<\/p>\n
Later Diane learned he had been used.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Laura wants restitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elizabeth said.<\/p>\n
William shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe found the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Money changes motives.<\/p>\n
A familiar story.<\/p>\n
Helen searched historical data.<\/p>\n
Laura had spent years mapping victims.<\/p>\n
At first, she contacted several families anonymously.<\/p>\n
Sent records.<\/p>\n
Helped reopen claims.<\/p>\n
Then, around five years ago, those contacts stopped.<\/p>\n
That was when Richard hired her.<\/p>\n
Maybe she got closer to the structure.<\/p>\n
Closer to B-17.<\/p>\n
Closer to realizing she could take control herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Dad know about her father?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything,\u201d William said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he tell her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he ask her to digitize?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFiles he intended to give George.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another layer.<\/p>\n
Dad may have inadvertently handed Laura the map.<\/p>\n
Or deliberately.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he trust her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was his mistake,\u201d Victor said.<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Or maybe Dad saw in Laura what everyone else saw in themselves.<\/p>\n
A wronged person who deserved information.<\/p>\n
Trust became dangerous only when combined with opportunity.<\/p>\n
Mercer received word from Canada.<\/p>\n
One authorized user had attempted to access B-17 thirty minutes earlier.<\/p>\n
Identity:<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Bennett.<\/p>\n
My mother laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sitting here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Signature matched old records.<\/p>\n
Biometric verification failed.<\/p>\n
So the bank blocked access.<\/p>\n
Laura had the paper identity.<\/p>\n
Not the body.<\/p>\n
That was why she needed something else.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elizabeth went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou legally control the superseding trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she can\u2019t impersonate you remotely, maybe she needs you physically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna looked at the ticket.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the ticket is for George.\u201d<\/p>\n
Decoy.<\/p>\n
Or exchange.<\/p>\n
Then my phone rang.<\/p>\n
Unknown.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
Laura.<\/p>\n
I knew from the silence before she spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t go to the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
That surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted me not to?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to know whether you follow instructions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice was younger than I expected.<\/p>\n
Forties.<\/p>\n
Calm.<\/p>\n
Educated.<\/p>\n
No theatrical distortion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is my mother?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stood.<\/p>\n
Everyone reacted.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth grabbed my arm.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has Margaret?\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura laughed softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou misunderstood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho do you have?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone you care about.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked around.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
Anna.<\/p>\n
Rachel.<\/p>\n
Caroline.<\/p>\n
Daniel on video.<\/p>\n
Who was missing?<\/p>\n
Clara.<\/p>\n
I had not seen her since the cemetery.<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cClara.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura said nothing.<\/p>\n
That was answer enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is she?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStop using that word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cShe understands why I\u2019m doing this better than any of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPut her on.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
Clara\u2019s voice came.<\/p>\n
\u201cGeorge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you there willingly?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cClara.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
My body tightened.<\/p>\n
Laura returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s being dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need the location.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cElizabeth.\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe needs to sign.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elizabeth took the phone from me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura went silent.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Bennett.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t call me that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEleanor, then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cElizabeth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother\u2019s voice was cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou abducted Clara to make me sign over a trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI detained Clara because she tried to warn you before I was ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour signature.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t need the master schedule anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause your authority supersedes it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you still need me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens if I refuse?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cB-17 fractures.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n
Laura heard.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswer.\u201d<\/p>\n
She did.<\/p>\n
B-17 no longer sat in one account.<\/p>\n
Laura had already distributed small portions through a maze of holding structures.<\/p>\n
Not enough to trigger final settlement.<\/p>\n
But enough that if she activated the dissolution protocol, ownership claims would scatter across jurisdictions.<\/p>\n
Years of litigation.<\/p>\n
Victims might never recover money.<\/p>\n
Records could become impossible to reconstruct.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re threatening to destroy restitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m threatening to destroy your illusion of control.\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother said:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want the money for?\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura\u2019s voice changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo are thousands of victims in your family\u2019s records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not returning it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why hide?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause your lawyers will spend twenty years arguing percentages.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know what I\u2019ll do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what every Bennett and Ross eventually does when holding the key.\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother looked around.<\/p>\n
At William.<\/p>\n
At Margaret through another feed.<\/p>\n
At Victor.<\/p>\n
At me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re right about them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re wrong about me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cProve it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCome sign the liquidation authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Clara stays.\u201d<\/p>\n
I took the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet Clara go and we\u2019ll negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing to negotiate with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why print me a ticket?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Anna looked at me sharply.<\/p>\n
That was it.<\/p>\n
The detail.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy George Ross?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Laura did not answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted the name to mean something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still nothing.<\/p>\n
Anna whispered:<\/p>\n
\u201cAsk about the stars.\u201d<\/p>\n
I frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
She pointed to the yellow-star sticker recovered from Caroline\u2019s locker.<\/p>\n
The symbol.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth\u2019s old mark.<\/p>\n
Anna said quietly:<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did Laura know?\u201d<\/p>\n
My mother had used it privately.<\/p>\n
Anna knew.<\/p>\n
Clara knew.<\/p>\n
Martin perhaps.<\/p>\n
But Laura?<\/p>\n
Maybe through files.<\/p>\n
Maybe photographs.<\/p>\n
Still.<\/p>\n
Anna shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot just the star.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wrapping paper.\u201d<\/p>\n
The birthday present.<\/p>\n
Yellow paper with white stars.<\/p>\n
Martin knew about it.<\/p>\n
Dad knew eventually.<\/p>\n
But did Laura?<\/p>\n
The ticket printout had a faint watermark I had assumed decorative.<\/p>\n
Tiny white stars.<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did you learn about the birthday wrapping paper?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Long.<\/p>\n
Everyone in the room understood.<\/p>\n
That detail was not in formal trust records.<\/p>\n
Not in digitized financial files.<\/p>\n
Not likely in Diane\u2019s papers.<\/p>\n
It came from someone who saw the package.<\/p>\n
Someone present in our story more closely than Laura admitted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho told you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura\u2019s voice hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re wasting time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Anna.<\/p>\n
She mouthed one name.<\/p>\n
Martin.<\/p>\n
But Martin was dead.<\/p>\n
Could have told Laura.<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Yet the paper itself remained with Anna for twelve years.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Martin photograph it?\u201d<\/p>\n
No answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Clara tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Clara\u2019s muffled voice shouted something in the background.<\/p>\n
Laura cut the line.<\/p>\n
We all stood.<\/p>\n
Mercer\u2019s team began tracing.<\/p>\n
Too late.<\/p>\n
Burner.<\/p>\n
But Clara\u2019s outburst had contained one sound.<\/p>\n
A bell.<\/p>\n
Three slow chimes.<\/p>\n
Anna froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChurch bell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich church?\u201d<\/p>\n
She closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
Listened in memory.<\/p>\n
\u201cSt. Matthew\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe neighborhood where I lived after Richard forced me out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna had lived near St. Matthew\u2019s briefly before disappearing from Dad\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n
Clara knew that.<\/p>\n
Martin knew.<\/p>\n
But Laura?<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Anna looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I moved there, one person helped me get the apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n
I knew the answer before she said it.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiane.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret\u2019s assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane Mercer had helped Anna relocate.<\/p>\n
Supposedly under Margaret\u2019s control.<\/p>\n
Maybe she had kept closer watch than anyone realized.<\/p>\n
Laura could know the wrapping paper through her mother.<\/p>\n
Because Diane had seen Anna carrying the gift.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiane was part of Anna\u2019s disappearance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not merely paperwork.<\/p>\n
Directly.<\/p>\n
We called Margaret.<\/p>\n
She closed her eyes when Anna confronted her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou used Diane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she see the present?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she know what it was?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed her to know what Anna might try to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n
There.<\/p>\n
Laura inherited the intimate details from Diane.<\/p>\n
Not Martin.<\/p>\n
Her mother had been inside the machinery from the beginning.<\/p>\n
Mercer traced St. Matthew\u2019s area.<\/p>\n
Old school buildings.<\/p>\n
Parish hall.<\/p>\n
Vacant convent.<\/p>\n
One property recently leased through a company tied to Laura.<\/p>\n
We moved.<\/p>\n
Police first.<\/p>\n
Then us.<\/p>\n
The building was nearly empty.<\/p>\n
Clara sat in an upstairs room.<\/p>\n
Hands tied.<\/p>\n
Unhurt.<\/p>\n
Laura was gone.<\/p>\n
On the wall behind Clara:<\/p>\n
seven account numbers.<\/p>\n
B-17 branches.<\/p>\n
And one message:<\/p>\n
ASK ANNA WHAT DIANE GAVE HER THE NIGHT SHE LEFT.<\/p>\n
Everyone turned.<\/p>\n
Anna stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clara said, \u201cShe kept repeating it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna looked genuinely confused.<\/p>\n
Then she reached slowly into her purse.<\/p>\n
Pulled out the old yellow-star wrapping she had kept folded around the wooden gift case.<\/p>\n
The paper had been opened.<\/p>\n
Refolded.<\/p>\n
Handled for decades.<\/p>\n
Anna stared at the back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was something under the cardboard once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was packing.\u201d<\/p>\n
She peeled apart the aging inner layer.<\/p>\n
A thin envelope slid out.<\/p>\n
Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
Diane had hidden something inside the birthday present twelve years ago.<\/p>\n
Before Anna disappeared.<\/p>\n
Before George turned thirteen.<\/p>\n
Anna opened it.<\/p>\n
Inside:<\/p>\n
a bank access card.<\/p>\n
Old.<\/p>\n
Expired-looking.<\/p>\n
And a handwritten note from Diane Mercer.<\/p>\n
IF RICHARD OR MARGARET EVER COMES FOR YOU, THIS IS YOUR PROOF.<\/p>\n
On the reverse:<\/p>\n
B-17.<\/p>\n
My pulse hammered.<\/p>\n
Diane had known about the hidden account long before Laura claimed to discover it.<\/p>\n
Anna looked at the note.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy give this to me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Clara whispered:<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Diane was trying to protect you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Or recruit her.<\/p>\n
Or plant evidence.<\/p>\n
We turned the card over.<\/p>\n
One authorized user name remained legible.<\/p>\n
Not Richard.<\/p>\n
Not Margaret.<\/p>\n
Not William.<\/p>\n
Not Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
DIANE MERCER.<\/p>\n
Laura\u2019s mother had not merely known about B-17.<\/p>\n
She had controlled access to it.<\/p>\n
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