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"Cool I’ve known Cheney for years"

"What about you? How’d you end up here?" I asked

"I work for the Dispatch One of the guys picked up chatter about it on the scanner and sent "

"Not much at this point," I said I’ for my client’s identity I didn’t even want her to know I had a client because she’d try angling for an interview

"How’d you hear about it?" she asked Her tone was casual and the line was delivered as a throay as though she had little or no interest in ned to elicit information

"Long story," I said

"Mind if I get your name?"

"You can keep my name out of it This is not about me"

"No problem If you don’t want to be quoted, we can keep this off the record"

"What’s to quote? I don’t know anything"

"Fair enough I’m Diana Alvarez, by the way" She held out her hand

Without pausing to consider, I shook hands with her and said, "Kinsey Millhone" The second the words caso easily sucked in

"Niceyou," she said, and then she wandered away