'Children's homes. I went through every bastard in Social Services till I got some doddery old bat who remembered something about a wee girl getting taken into care after her dad lost an arm in a slaughterhouse. You may now worship my --' 'What about the other kids - Kelley and Jimmy?' 'God knows. I was lucky to get that much out of her .' 'What bloody good does that do us?' Logan started down the stairs, his torch's beam supplemented by the lights on Alec's camera. 'We already know--' 'Ah, this is where my genius comes in. She didn't deal with the case herself, but she knows a man who did. We ...' Silence.' ... time with ...' Hissing.' ... night? ' 'Hello?' Tssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss' ... lo? ' Logan froze on the stairs, then took two steps back up. 'Hello?' 'Hello? You still there? ' 'What did he say?' 'Didn't speak to him, thought you'd want to do that yourself. His number's oh, one, two, two, four ...' Logan pinned the phone between his shoulder and his ear, dug out his notebook and copied it down. 'Thanks.' 'And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Simon Rennie has left the building! ' 'Oh no he bloody hasn't.' 'What? Oh come on, I-- ' 'Just hang around till I've spoken to him, OK? I might need you to follow up on something.' He hung up before Rennie could start whinging, and dialled the number. 'Hello? ' An old man's voice. Logan asked him about Elizabeth Souter. There was a long and thoughtful pause.'Nope, doesn't ring a bell. Sorry .' 'Well how about Kelley? No? Jimmy Souter?' 'Jimmy Souter? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. You wouldn't believe the trouble one person can cause. If anything got broken, vandalized, set on fire, it was always Jimmy Souter's fault .' 'Any idea what happened to him?' 'Elizabeth and Kelley ... now I remember - we all breathed a sigh of relief when someone adopted her. Can't have been easy for the family, but I understand she turned out pretty well .'
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