61. Richard had gone

from feeling like a ball in a pinball machine aimlessly bouncing from one person to the next. To feeling that it was all a complete waste of time because there was still no hard evidence from 60 years ago. When there was a quiet knock on the door of his hotel room.
When his friend had finished talking to him he could not believe what he had heard. The detail was astounding and the pictures painted so vivid that he felt he had been there too. Her words had come tumbling out.
“After Loga had cleaned herself off at Sam's house and been cleared by the Doctor in from Mary's Harbour for the day, she told Sam and Lizzie there and then that she had never wanted Emily, James Jones's daughter because she absolutely loathed him. Loga had been uncontrollable with rage when she found out that her maid as Quigley had told her was carrying her husband's baby. They plotted the murder between them and offered Orlowski a sum of $10,000 on condition that he left Wild Bay on the next cargo ship. Kris Orlowski agreed providing he received half the sum before and the other half after the deed. They would have paid twice the sum to get rid of the young Jeffrey representing his crooked father. Orlowski instructed Sam Gray to make sure there were fire axes in all rooms and a cellar full of junks ready to burn. Later on in the afternoon of Friday 1st February 1940 Orlowski called round to see Jeffrey on the pretence of discussing a further possible timber contract with him. After speaking with Jeffrey, Orlowski said he would let himself out by the backdoor. Instead he very quietly lifted the trapdoor