"Okay, that's true. All right, let's still assume Bob Scott was behind it. That's the first part. Let's just say he was paid off to help orchestrate the assassination. It costs him his career, but so be it. He goes off and lives in the wilds of Montana."

"But what about Bruno? What connection could Scott have to the man?"

"Well, what if when he set up Ritter he did it because he and Ramsey were friends somehow, way back when? I know it seems crazy. Scott fought in Vietnam and Ramsey protested against it, but stranger things have happened. Maybe they met at some protest. You know, Scott was sick of the war and jumped to Ramsey's way of thinking. So maybe if he helped set up the assassination of Ritter with Arnold Ramsey, he also knows Kate Ramsey. And then he's also aware that Bruno ruined her father's career with trumped-up charges, and he told Kate that. Now Kate grows up hating Bruno, and Scott comes back in the picture somehow, and they team up to kidnap him and make him pay for what he did. That would pretty much explain it all."

"And the man who visited Arnold Ramsey, the one Kate overheard saying Thornton Jorst's name-you're saying that was Scott?"

"Well, if Kate is really involved, she could have just lied about that to throw us off the truth, like we talked about. So what do you think?"

"Those are pretty good deductions."

"Well, I think we make a pretty good team."

King drew a deep breath. "Now I guess we wait and see what tomorrow brings."