She meets with Fenton who quizzes her about the case and deems her worthy enough to take on. Lots of the other students had been thinking about it, too, but it’s hard to run away when you have nothing and grew up on a commune. Fenton, thinking about where Ellie could have gone. Security Larry picks her up after her flight with Edward King and says he expects her to follow the rules a little more when she gets back to school. He wants Stevie back at school to keep an eye on David, to keep him in line and to keep him from getting expelled. He has ulterior motives, of course, the sleazebag that he is. Now she’s stuck on the outside, until she returns home and finds sleazy senator Edward King in her living room, convincing her parents to let her go back to school. Stevie is upset that as soon as she found this major clue, she was taken out of the school because of a report that Germaine Batt, another student at the school, wrote about Hayes’s death and Ellie’s disappearance. She knows that the students in the pictures, the one dressed as Bonnie and Clyde, are the same students that Leonard Holmes Nair mentioned in his police interview. Stevie is back in her hometown in a coffee shop looking through the first piece of real evidence in the Ellingham Affair in 80 years, the tea tin she found in Ellie’s bedroom filled with photographs, the first draft of a poem, a magazine cut out of the word US and some other things like lipstick, a pill box, a feather, some cloth.
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