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Sherlock said, "You want to hear so? It turns out Stony and Toini have known each other all their lives We know that Stony and Toot to be kidding I mean, he uploaded a photo of his murdered friend? But that would make him--what? The murderer? At least an acco Tohtful for a moment "He doesn’t have the fire in the belly for it--he’s a nice kid, Savich, that’s the long and short of it"

Lucy said, "But he illing to upload the photo of a dead friend, which means if he didn’t kill Tommy, he has to knoho did That’s pretty sliuys corim while Sherlock and I speak with Stony Frorinned "I like the Gestapo look--arms crossed over the chest, eyesyou took him to the bathroom, Coop"

Savich and Sherlock walked down the hallway to the interview room, Coop and Lucy behind them They paused to listen at the door, then Savich unlocked it and went in Savich could practically see waves of despair rolling off Stony Hart Coop was right, whatever else this young man was, he wasn’t a murderer But then as he? Given what he’d done, it was hard to believe he was really Tommy Cronin’s best friend

"Good afternoon, Mr Hart Everyone calls you Stony, right?"

The young hts He looked terrified down to his pocket protector, and painfully young, though Savich knew he’d turned twenty-three last week His eyes slid to Coop and Lucy, standing with their backs against the door, ready to leap on hied a hoarse whisper, "Yes, I’ wrong I didn’t call a lawyer because I’m not a criminal, and I understand I haven’t been arrested It’s very i to keep my job that I not be arrested"

Savich said, "You’re not a crilad to hear it, because that means you’ll tell us the truth" Savich leaned in close "I always knohen so to me, Stony, always, so save us all time and don’t try it I want you to tell us what you al What is it you did, exactly?"

"Look You took all ht Sure, I have soht not be strictly legal, but they can sue , ht me here like this"--he sed--"in handcuffs" His eyes darted to where Lucy had left the handcuffs on the edge of the table

Savich asked, "So is that why you use anonymizers? So you won’t be embarrassed?"

"Sure, I have the software to do that It’s the best, I vetted it myself, even made adjustments toout of sight on the Internet Soround sites in China, Iran, and no one ever knoho I am Why do you care about my anonymizer? What do you think I’ve done?"

Savich backed off, let hiet the nicknaers "What? You want to know that? Myat stones when I was a kid; I had kind of a compulsion that way, had to see as under every rock Now I’, but I’ht it was funny My friends picked it up froet past soerous--" His face drained of what color was left "No, Iaround"

Sherlock said, "Then why don’t you tell us why you used your anonymizer to upload the photo of your best friend’s dead body on YouTube"

Stony sputtered, put his face in his hands, and shook his head back and forth "What are you talking about? This is about Tommy? That photo? You think I did that? No, never, it was horrible"

Savich leaned forward "The thing is, Stony, the cohly sophisticated with your tweaks, but not for soht be an act of terrorism"