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I look at the cursive scrawl he’s pointing to

Stephanie Brewer

Now instead of palpitations,

How could this be happening? And on the daythe cart through the door to find Pete sitting at the security desk, on the interoffice phone He puts his hand over the mouthpiece and asks, "Where have you been? Do you have any idea what’s been going on here? Do you knoho’s in your office?"

"I think I can guess," I assure hih with accessories fro all this stuff?" I ask hi

"The penthouse?" I can’t i to ith a lava lamp

"All I know is upstairs," he says He seeda says hi" He indicates the phone He and Magda,Services, have become a pretty hot ite has to be carried out via telephone because Magda has been transferred over to the Pansy Café while the Fischer Hall cafeteria, where she nor renovated

"Tell her hi back," I call vaguely overtoward my office I have to duck when I encounter Carl, the chief building engineer, striding down the hallway carrying an eight-foot ladder on his shoulder

"Hey," he says cheerfully "Look where you’re going What d’ya want, another body?"

"Not funny," I say to hi on here?"

"Don’t know," he says "Got a call froo up to the seventeenth floor to change all the lightbulbs in the vanity mirrors above the bathrooy-efficients that are in there So that’s what I’"

I’ular lightbulbs?"

He snorts "Been hoarding the a decade ago I kneouldn’t go over ith you woht in the bathroom so you can see to put your makeup on"

I blink at this, not sure how to react

"Oh," I say "Well, good I guess"