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was trying to extort. I gave him some cash to help him make an
escape, but obviously it didn’t help much.” Lucas looked down with
obvious regret.
    Questions flooded Kate’s mind as she thought
about the actual motive. Did they kill him to silence him to take
away the threat, or was it a punishment for trying to betray a
kingpin? Perhaps both?
    “Okay, Lucas. I do appreciate you being so
open with us. I won’t be pressing any charges on you, and
hopefully, your information will help us solve this homicide.”
    Lucas nodded, his face still white.
    Kate hurried back to the taxi as she thought
about everything she had just learned. What would be her next step?
She could hardly turn to her boss and ask his advice. At the same
time, she knew that she could not keep this new information
private. Something needed to be done with it, but next came the
hard part. After shopping, at least. Now she had a whole different
set of issues to worry about. Glancing at the list she wrestled
from her pocket, more concerns clouded her already overwrought
mind.
    There was still a lot she had to learn about
living out here, but she didn’t want to get used to this life. She
wanted to find the mole, solve this case, and get her life
back.
     

 
    John 10:28.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one
will snatch them out of my hand.
    Chapter
11 .
     
    Kate and Beth were sitting at the old,
kitchen table, enjoying each other’s company and a cup of hot
meadow tea before finishing the dinner preparations. “I don’t
understand the situation with Rose and Samuel,” Kate said. “It’s
obvious that they like each other, so why are they are pretending
not to?”
    “Well you see, Kate,” Beth said, “it’s hard
to move the plow when neither horse is pulling - they just stay
stuck and wait for a miracle to happen.”
    Kate shrugged. “I suppose you’ve already
given Rose hints as to how to approach Samuel?”
    Beth slowly shook her head. “The thing is,
she’s too shy to talk to me or do something about it. I’ve tried to
talk to her on the subject, but with zero results. Every time I say
a word about it, or ask something, her cheeks blush, and she
hurries away, pretending she has something important to do.” Beth
sighed deeply. “What can I do? I can’t force her to do or say
something. It’s a pity that each one of them is waiting for the
other to make the first step and so they wait in vain. This dinner
will have to work.”
    “I’m sure the dinner will work,” Kate said.
“It will force the two of them to stay in each other’s company and
actually talk to each other.”
    Beth simply shrugged, and Kate went to set
the table, thinking how beautiful the plain setting was. When she
had first arrived, she lamented her loss of television, phones, and
internet, but now, she was coming to appreciate the simpler things
in life. Most people in the community simply worked their land and
lived from their crops and the animals they raised on their farms.
They had no need for mobile or conventional phones, and television
was something alien to them.
    The people in the community would rather
speak face to face than on the phone. Kate figured that the Amish
had something that Englischers had lost somewhere between
smartphones and tablets - that soul to soul communication which
bonds and creates friendships, the sort of communication she hoped
to see soon around that table when Rose and Samuel were
present.
    “I’m nervous,” Rose confided in Kate half an
hour later as she paced up and down Kate’s small living room. The
cabin behind the main house was cramped, but the young Rose had
started spending a lot of her free time with Kate, and the older
woman found she really enjoyed the company. Kate really liked Rose,
and they had gotten to know each other very well. Rose was young,
just past eighteen, and while she had chosen to remain with the
Amish community, she had expressed a few fears of doing just that
with