she left town. but then, a lot of people left town after the mill broke down.
how did cindy leave town?
you mean what was her state of mind?
no, i mean did she hitchhike, did she have a car of her own, did she take a bus?
nobody hitchhikes any more.
maybe not, but it is still a standard question, and statistics are kept on it.
why is that, i wonder?
i think it has to do with serial killers. there are still people trying to track down old serial killers, and a lot of them picked up hitchhikers.
serial killers! what are you going to bring up next, gunslingers who traveled from town to town?
we are getting off the subject again. i take it from your response that cindy did not hitchhike out of town.
not after the mill closed down, she didn’t. maybe when she was younger, and hitchhiking was still a thing.
when she was younger? but she was still pretty young when she let town, wasn’t she?
no, she was ancient.
ancient?
yes, she was about forty.
forty! i thought you said she was young.
no, i never said anything about her age. it is you, mister deputy administrator, taking things for granted.
so how old was bob jones when all this was going on?
i don’t know, about seventeen, eighteen.
so he was just a child! and cindy was a child molester!
well, i don’t know if she ever actually got to molest him. he turned her down remember?
but he was just a child!
you grow up fast with that kind of money. at least that is what they tell me.
but he should have been well protected if he was worth that much.
that is one way to look at it.
really? and what other way is there?
with all that money, you got people trying to take advantage of you from the day you were born, and you learn to deal with it.
that is a very negative attitude. but i should be used to it from you by now.
hey, i am trying to be helpful here.
first, you do not tell me that bill bailey was black, then you fail to mention that cindy was an old woman. are you neglecting any pertinent details as to bob jones?
i don’t think so.
you know what i think? do you want to know what i think?
no, what do you think?
i think this interview is over. here is what is going to happen. i am going to give you this notebook, this ruled notebook, you see it?
i see it.
ever see one of them before? kids in school used to use them, back in the day.
when they weren’t hitchhiking and stealing apples from farmer brown’s orchard and getting into mischief.
whatever. now i am going to leave you here and you are going to sit here and fill up this notebook with everything, and i do mean everything, that you know about bill bailey and cindy and bob jones and anyone else connected to them, do you understand?
i need a pencil. i don’t carry one around with me.
you will be provided with a pencil. but before i leave you, let me just check my notes.
can i get something to eat? i am hungry.
maybe. let me check my notes first.
i could probably write better if i wasn’t starving.
what the - here is a discrepancy, an absolutely huge discrepancy in everything you have said. it makes me wonder if i can take a single word you have said seriously.
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