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bought the boat, it really helped her.  I don’t even know if she got the insurance money right away.”
                  “Doesn’t it usually take seven years for a person to be declared dead after they are missing?” asked Sarah.
                  “I don’t know,” replied Billy.  “I would assume that is determined by the circumstances surrounding a person’s disappearance.   Eddie was a man who simply went to work one day and was lost at sea.  Running a shrimp boat is a dangerous job.  Accidents happen all the time.  There was an all-out search conducted in those waters.  The story was in the newspaper and on the local television channels.  It was big news because he was well known in these parts.  I know that Charla bought her new house about a year after Eddie was gone.  I assume that is when she got the insurance money, but I could be wrong about that.”
                  “I am not sure what happened, either.  But, if Eddie is alive and Charla is involved in this, she will not care if she has to blame someone else to save her own hide.  Trust me on that one,” said Sarah emphatically.  “She could even convince the authorities that you and Eddie coerced her into this whole scheme against her will.”
                  Billy looked down and thought for a moment.  “We need to call the police right now.  We should get this all out in the open.”
                  “Get what out in the open?” Sarah asked.  “Do you think that we can go to the police and tell them that Jessie came to me in a dream?  They will think we are crazy, or worse yet, that we made it up to cover up some serious wrong doings.  No, we can’t involve them.  We need to do this ourselves and find out what we can first.  We’ll start with all the addresses we’ve got the minute I get out of school tomorrow.  Somehow, some way, we have got to find out where Charla’s buildings are.  If Eddie is living in one of them, then we can call the police.”
                  “I see what you mean,” said Billy.  “But, why do you think that Jessie wanted you or me to know about this at all?”
                  “I have given that a great deal of consideration,” Sarah explained.  “I don’t think that this is about you.  I think it’s about Eddie.  It appears that she wants us to locate him.  I don’t know why.”
                  “What if it’s not her father that she is worried about?” Billy asked.  “What if that man is someone else?  He doesn’t fit Eddie’s description.  He is much too thin.”
                  “Do you think that we’re on the wrong track?” asked Sarah.
                  “I don’t know,” said Billy.  “She gave you enough information so that I would trust you.  When I think about the name Ice , her medal, Gotcha , the riverboat, and the boots—all of those things could have only come from her.  But, why would she involve you at all?”
                  “It must have been so that you and I would make contact, no doubt,” said Sarah. 
    “Those examples leave no room for error.  This man, however, is a quandary.  So, in regard to these dreams, I have to go with my gut.  I think that Jessie is worried about him even if he’s not her father.”
                  “Could it be that he is someone who is blackmailing her mother?” asked Billy.  “I mean, do you think that Charla is in some kind of danger?”
                  “I honestly don’t have a clue,” she admitted.  “Maybe Charla really believes that Eddie is dead.  But, I think that he is alive and living in New Orleans.  Think about it.  When I saw Jessie and she appeared to me in every dream, she always had your son with her because he is on the Other Side.  If Eddie was dead, wouldn’t it stand to reason that he would have been holding her other