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"A warning to who?" I ask "Jimmy the line cook?"

"Well, if we knew that," Cooper says, "we’d have a good idea who did it, wouldn’t we? And why Canavan’s right to start with the boyfriend He any good? As a ballplayer, I mean?"

I look at hiood can he be?"

"But the Pansies have been playing a lot better since they got that new coach, this Andrews guy," Cooper says, with a slight snorance "They’ve even started broadcasting the gaht’s gaht of all this?"

I snort "Are you kidding? We’re playing the New Jersey East Devils at hoht-and-oh?"

Cooper’s sed with frost "The head of one of the cheerleaders was found in her dorame?"

"Residence hall," I correct hi a clipboard

"Excuse me," I say to Cooper, and hurry over to the ER doc, who infor hined the appropriate forms I thank the doctor and return to Cooper’s side, only to find he’s already on his feet, scooping up the debris fro it into a nearby trash can

"Gavin’s ready to go," I say to hiloves back on, readying hiuys need a lift back?"

"I doubt Gavin’s up to walking," I say "But we’ll grab a cab I’ in your car"

"For which I thank you," Cooper says gravely "Well, see you at home, then And, Heather…about Lindsay--"

"Don’t worry," I interrupt "In no way aation into her death I totally learned my lesson last time The NYPD is on their oith this one"

Cooper looks serious "That wasn’t what I was going to say," he inforetting involved in what happened at Fischer Hall today Especially not after what happened last ti

"You ured out who the killer was before anybody else did?" I de killed, and not dying of their own recklessness?"

"Whoa," Cooper says "Slon, slugger I just meant--"

"Because you do realize that whoever did this to Lindsay had to have access to the keys to the caf, right?" I don’t care that the ho ME the wary eye he’d given Cooper just minutes before What I lack in shoulder breadth, I irth Oh, and pure shrillness