Anyone with information should contact the police department or Assistant Fire Chief Michael Gallagher.____________________________________ “Thank you for agreeing to meet with me, my dear.”Rose shifted in the plush upholstered chair. The Judge’s phone call earlier inviting her to his offices tonight had been providential. She’d planned on paying him a visit anyway. Rose soberly eyed the Judge across his massive mahogany desk. The damning paperwork contained in Mike’s file weighed heavy on her heart. The roster of back taxes left unpaid, the defaulted bank loans, the gambling markers.Someday, possibly in the very near future, Mike would have enough evidence to arrest this man she had loved all her life. The Judge would be charged with crimes against their community. Turning her back on him now, when he needed her most, went against everything she believed, everything she had been taught. Her mind was made up. She would stand by his side, provide a legal defense to see him through his troubles… and then she would leave.
