Hard Rain: A Rachel Stern Mystery by Waverly Fitzgerald

Author:Waverly Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Waverly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I left Melody my card and told her that she might be hearing from my friend, Joel Wiseman. I figured this new version of events would be supremely useful to Joel when negotiating with the authorities to secure the best deal for Ellie Foley when she emerged from underground. If I could believe Melody’s version. What with the untreated PTSD and the constant dope smoking, I wasn’t so sure. Still I was looking forward to sharing this information with Joel at our dinner date later in the evening.

There were documents waiting for me at Special Collections, so I decided to head back to the UW Campus. The librarians still had my order waiting and I went through the Vietnam war ephemera first, posters calling for rallies, photos of rallies, newspaper articles describing rallies. Boo Riley, Matt’s friend seemed to be at the forefront of most of them—not surprising since he had started the local chapter of Vietnam Vets Against the War—and in one photo, taken of him lounging on a sofa in the student union, he had his arm around the woman sitting beside him, in that heavy-armed v-position that always seems to me like a yoke, suggesting this woman is my property. And the woman was Ellie Foley. The caption even named her as one of the leaders of SDS on campus.

Farther down in the stack, I came across the paperwork Boo had submitted to the University in support of his request to do put on an event on campus. He listed an address in Wallingford which seemed familiar to me. I wanted to look back at my notes, but, of course, I didn’t have notes any more. Fred Proctor had taken off with them.

“Do you have historical directories for the City of Seattle?” I asked the librarian. She directed me to the main branch of the library where I soon found them in the reference section. The directory for 1968 listed Riley, William at 4400 Latona. Also listed at that address: Robert Roth and Ellen Foley.

My intuition had turned out to be correct. Matt’s buddy Boo knew Ellie. Was probably in a relationship with her. He would make a good character witness.

I went home and got Boo’s current address off my computer. If I left right away I could make it to Bellingham and still get back in time for my dinner with Joel. And maybe I would even learn something that would further impress Joel. I didn’t stop to consider that I was doing research far beyond the scope of what he had requested.

As I was leaving the house, my phone rang. I didn’t recognize the number but then I thought maybe it was my dad calling from one of his burner cell phones. But it wasn’t my dad, it was Matt.

“Hey, Rachel,” he said. “Time for you to get a gun.”

“What?”

“I just bought a cell phone.” He gave a little chuckle. “I’m in the airport in San Francisco. On my way to Oakland. Going to hang out with Councilman Brown.

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