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medicine helps Nate and he gets Jevy to take him to a hotel. While at the hotel though Nate gets sick again and Jevy is forced to take Nate back to the hospital. While Nate was sleeping at the hospital, he thought Rachel had come to talk to him. She told him he would not die, that god had plans for him. When Nate got better, Jevy and Nate went back to the hotel again. Nate told Jevy about Rachel coming to visit him in the hospital. Jevy didn?t believe him but agrees to look for her nonetheless. Nate spends the next couple of days resting and looking for Rachel. Josh called Nate wanting to know what happened with Rachel. Nate tells him that he saw Rachel, but she didn?t want the money, and that she doesn?t want to be found. Josh tells Nate he needs to come back to the states right

away. Jevy and Nate say their goodbye?s and both agree to keep in touch. When Nate gets back to Washington, Josh and Nate discuss what to do next. Josh tells Nate that Nate will be the Lawyer for Rachel Lane. Josh doesn?t want to tell the children of Troy?s that Rachel doesn?t want the money. The children are suing the estate. They feel they have been cheated out of the money they believed they were entitled to. A court date is set. Nate spends two weeks questioning the children and their new psychiatrists. Nate tears them apart. He catches the children and their other witnesses lying about different things in the case. Nate was an experienced attorney he knew how to ask the right questions. Nate was living two hours away from Washington in a small town. The house was owned by

Josh Stafford. Nate went to church and met the minister. His name was Phil. Nate and Phil got to be very good friends they talked about everything. Nate and Phil spent a lot of their time working in the basement of the church. They were building classrooms for Sunday school. When Nate was needed in Washington he would drive back, otherwise he stayed in the small town. Josh and Nate discussed a few things about the case back in Washington. They talked to the lawyer?s of the Phelan children and set a meeting date. At the meeting they discussed a settlement. Josh and Nate offered a $10 million settlement. The Phelan lawyers wanted $50 million. Nate told the Phelan attorneys that his client had advised him to go as high as $20 million. The Phelan attorneys asked for a lunch break to

talk to their clients about the offer. When the meeting resumed, Nate told the Phelan lawyers they would pay the Phelan children $50 million apiece to settle. The Phelan lawyers agreed and a settlement was signed. Nate took a flight on the Phelan private jet to Corumba. He was going to find Rachel Lane again. When the plane arrived at Corumba, Nate got onto a helicopter that had been rented. The helicopter took Nate to a clearing that Jevy and Welly had made. Nate got out of the helicopter and he joined Jevy and Welly in a new boat with a brand-new engine. Together they took the boat to the settlement where they had first met Rachel. When they got to the settlement, the Ipica?s were nowhere to be found. After Nate and Jevy waited for a while the chief came to talk to them. After

some time he took Nate and Jevy to Rachel?s hut. But Rachel wasn?t there. The chief pointed to two matching white crossed in the ground. Nate walked up to them. The chief told Nate ?The woman is on the left. Lako is on the right. They died on the same day, malaria has killed ten people since you have left.? The Indians had blamed Nate for the malaria coming so Nate and Jevy couldn?t stay any longer. But before the chief left he told Nate that Rachel had left something for him. It was an envelope. When Nate looked inside, he found two sheets of white letter-sized paper, stapled together. On the first sheet, in large letters across the top Rachel had written, again, Last Testament of Rachel Lane Porter. The testament said she wanted the estate?s money to be placed in a trust. The

interest from the trust would be used for charitable purposes. Rachel appointed Nate as the manager of the trust. Nate realized then that Rachel really was in Corumba. She had visited him in the hospital. Rachel knew she was going to die, and something had told her this. She had contracted malaria. She had made the last trip to Corumba for supplies and to get a will written and notarized by a lawyer. Rachel had found Nate?s calling. Somehow she had known that Nate?s addictions were gone. Rachel had seen the good in Nate. She knew he was searching for his purpose in life. Rachel had found his calling. God told her. Nate would for as long as he was alive be able to help out people with Rachel?s trust. One of the main themes of this book is overcoming obstacles. In this book Nate