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bility of a newspaper headline—DIRECTOR-
SPONSORED STUDENT CAUGHT IN VICE
- RAID.
Convinced that he faced both jail and deportation
if he failed to leave the country of his own free will,
# Franco went. ,
gk But not before he wrote a letter to Mrs. J.B. With
it he enclosed some notes of affection that J.B. had
B written to him. There was no mistaking the hand-
writing nor the implications contained in the
® messages.
“Is this true?”’ she asked—her voice dark and

, ”” was the simple, honest answer.
Mrs. ].B. left the living room and retired to her
8 bedroom upstairs. ‘] B/ just sat there long into the
night. “Thank God,” he thought, “the children are
"away visiting friends for the weekend.”
- It must-have been three o’clock in the morning
when ].B. heard a shot ring out.
- He didn’t move. He was afraid to. He dldnt have
to go upstairs. He knew what had happened. She
was an expert with guns, utterly fearless.
- She would not have missed.
8 At the inquest it was impossible to av01d Franco.
B He was everywhere as the investigation traced J.B.’s

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