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"Mind if I join you?" she asked

"No, I'd be happy to have the coht now," Judith replied

"Tuesday's usually pretty slow," Tanya said She crumbled a cracker into her soup bowl "You're a cop, aren't you? I ht now"

"What brought you here?"

"Quiet Peace Lack of stress, I guess" Judith sighed

"Oh, I just recognized you! It's been driving rinned "You won last year's 'Guns for Fun' co I get a lot of opportunities to practice that, in h" She turned fro experience that goes inning contests" She glanced back, smiled "I won the last four years-two firsts, two silver medals"

Tanya remembered her whistle of admiration

Judith told her, over a period of several lunches, of her discomfort in her job as a police officer

"I hate to hurt people," Judith said, her dark eyes filling "I do what I have to do, but I don't like it"

And Tanya listened She knew from experience the more she listened, the less she had to reveal about herself No one need kno different she was; no one need feel pity for her She forced Tanya into the background and refused to deal with her, while bringing out the other person's inner self

Tanya leaned back and glanced at a fra room wall She smiled as she reed about that awful idea of prying into the sacred inner thoughts of people, while trying to discover the criminal inclinations we all

Judith had pontificated on the subject of psychological profiles as a means to predict criminal behavior "Nobody has to suffer because of crime, if we are able to prevent it," she said Her eyes had the intent look of a zealot, her jaw set and deterh stool behind the cashier's desk at the Gallery, had nodded, encouraged her rant She stared at Judith for seconds at a tilanced down

"Okay," Judith said "What are you up to?" She stood on tip toe to see over the counter "Let's see" She walked around the desk and stood beside Tanya