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Agent Nye visits the boardinghouse in Las Vegas where Perry is reported to have stayed, and discovers a cardboard box filled with his possessions. The contents of the box leads him to seek out Barbara, Perry’s sister, in her San Francisco home, where she admits to being “afraid” of her brother. As children, she relates, they were inseparable, but she became fearful of his “wild” tendencies as he grew into adulthood. Perry, for his part, resents the education that Barbara and their two other siblings received while he was confined to trapping furs with his father in Alaska.