With that out of the way Kevin turned to the business of checking his bank balances, along with all deposits and withdrawals. The rent had been paid and the house had been leased for 95% of the summer, so he had a good nest egg.

He went to the pantry and got a case of scotch and put it in his Jeep. He would need to put the top on the Jeep before long, for it was getting cold.

He then made ten courtesy calls, leaving Pinch bottles at each place. At three others he left comparable boxes of Lady Godiva chocolates. So with this done he dropped into the Caf� and had a cup and a Reuben, for Hans made the best Reubens in the whole USA. He chatted with Rose a minute then went home to finalize his plan.

The Strawberry Festival was an annual event in Falfurrias, Texas, matter of fact it was the one event of the year. The Carrington Farms had over three thousand acres of strawberries and it had always been a tradition that a Carrington woman presided as The Brooks county Strawberry Queen.

The weekend was filled with singing, dancing, and partying, partying by the Mexican workers who did the manual labor of Brooks county. Kevin arrived a week in advance and rented a condo over in Kingsville, a neat little condo on the East side of town. The next day he crossed over to Nuevo Laredo, had lunch and bought a fifty pound sack of cynadic compound mixed with DDT, which was banned in the US, but his studies had shown that "Glacko", the trade name of the chemical, which was made by a subsidiary of Dow, and that it had devastating effects on diabetics. Within five minutes after ingesting a minute amount of Glacko, a diabetic's blood sugar level would render them unconscious, and they would be dead within five minutes. This was how Kevin had decided to get rid of Lily.