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"He had the phone in his hand He hung it up pretty fast when he looked at ency ‘What?’ he asked, and I said in , conference room,’ and he shook his head like who cared? He sat there, tapping his pen on the leather top of his beautiful desk, and he was frowning, looking off soain, as if he still couldn’t decide on soave this big sigh, and walked off to thata sandwich at my desk at a little after noon Danny and Fleurette went out to a café down the street, anything to get out of the pressure cooker for a while, they said, and Stealked in, nodded, and went right back into his office He shut the door this time, all the way"

Savich said, "Why didn’t you tell us this , Eliza?"

"I didn’t think it was odd or out of character, just business as usual When he was really thinking about so, he’d stay in his office by himself When he wanted to discuss a topic, or he was ready for a good argument about it, he’d callto talk Walk up into the residential neighborhood behind us Check out the construction, just to be outside It helped him to focus his mind"

"But on Friday, it’s still lunchtiht him a pita sandwich, roast lamb, his favorite"

"He ate alone? In his office?"

She nodded

"He didn’t ask you to join him?"

She shook her head

"Was this unusual?"

"No, not really"

"Where’s Danny?"

"Danny got back about a quarter of one and Fleurette a little after one Danny fritzed around a bit, not really doing anything useful that I could see, then he said he had to ask Justice Califano so I was busy so I didn’t ask hi like, ‘It better be i’ "

"And what did Danny say to that?"

"He said, ‘Oh, he’ll ive me a few minutes’ Oh God, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it seemed like business as usual, but now it looks so different What did he , didn’t he?"

Sherlock said, "Probably You’re doing great Okay, Danny knocks on the door?"