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"I’m surprised it did happen, actually," Savich called back "We’ll have these bozos out of here in a ain

Of course there were alorries, but why say that to Ms Lilly, particularly after half a dozen cop cars arrived and there were endless explanations and reassurances that the FBI had things under control Savich assigned an agent to each wounded man and watched the EMTs load the on He turned to see Sherlock touching his coat sleeve "What was on that phone you found in the kid’s pocket?"

"A phone number The area code includes Maestro Let me calm Ms Lilly while you check this out Then we’ll call Ruth"

He wondered hoas going to soothe Ms Lilly’s feathers, and not just figuratively, he noticed, since she earing two peacock feathers stuck in her big chignon, her signature ’do She stood waiting for hi out Billy Ocean’s "When the Going Gets Tough" It was Melissa Ivy He sot to take this call, but to ht for free"

She tapped a stiletto heel in the snow "Only one night? What do you think I aers you took down here?"

"All right, two nights, for free"

She smiled at him and patted his cheek, pulled the coat around her, and tottered back through the snow and into the club, headed back to her game of Texas Hold ’Em with people who should know better than to sit across a table fro?"

"Agent Savich, I was listening on my coether for o--you know, to help me feel better I normally play it on my CD player, but this time I played it on my computer, and I noticed the last file on it was a video of some kind When I played it, I saas Mr Hart in his study, talking on the phone I think it’s the video fro for"

He would have rubbed his hands together after hearing that, but his cell rang again, alency rooton Memorial The Latino Dane had shot in the shoulder who’d been lying with his eyes closed, urney in an ER cubicle, had suddenly reared up, grabbed a scalpel frourney, and sliced his own throat before Dane could even register what he’d done "My fault, Savich, my fault It happened too fast--and the blood, I didn’t realize how le hu me"

"Tie the other one down, Dane"

"Already done Ollie will keep on hiet hiood, but you’re better, Dane Go get yourself cleaned up and deal with this, all right? You get anything out of hiin Islands"

Savich heard an atteht of sun and sand with his wife, Nick, would get Dane focused again

Washington, DC

Tuesday night

It was close to ht when Savich and Sherlock drove to Melissa Ivy’s aparth the steady veil of snow There was only the occasional car on the road, so it took only eleven minutes They’d both been tired froer It was Sherlock who knocked on Melissa’s door

The door whipped open, and Melissa’s face wasfuzzy slippers, and she aving a disk at them "I found it! I found it!"

In a moment, she’d slipped the disk into her co for it to boot As she worked the mouse to click the commands, she said, "I usually listen toa class assignment and I loaded in this disk that Peter had burned for me to listen to his favorite music That’s when I noticed there’s an extra file on the disk that doesn’t play on my CD player, a video file Take a look"

And there it was, a video file from the surveillance system at the Harts’ house

They watched Wakefield Hart seated at his desk in his study on his cell phone Both his voice and the picture were sharp and clear "Yes, Raj"