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"Well, there’s usually solass, skid marks, transfer traces on the victiuy jumped out of his car and swept up all the soil and paint flecks, I don’t know I do trust Bobby’s intuition on this He says he was in danger He just can’t remember why"

Dr Fraker seemed to consider that briefly and then shifted in his seat "I’d be inclined to believe hiifted student, too It’s a damn shame there’s so little left of that What’s he think is going on?"

"He hasn’t any idea and, as he points out, the minute he remembers, he’s in more trouble than he is now He suspects solasses with a handkerchief, conte thewith puzzles, but I iined his solutions were derived from symptoms instead of circu motivation in the sahtly, his eyes ’s a little bit out ofbusinesslike "Well We better figure out what’s going on, then What do you need froed "All I know to do is start back at square one and see if I can determine what kind of trouble he was in He’d worked for you for what? Two months?"

"About that He started in September, I believe I can have Marcy look that up if you want exact dates"

"I gather he was hired here because of your relationship with his enerally have a slot available for a premed student It just happened that Bobby filled the bill in this case Glen Callahan’s a very big cheese around here, but ouldn’t have hired hiet you soht, sure"

He leaned sideways slightly, calling to the secretary, whose desk was in his line of sight "Marcy? Can we get some coffee in here, please?"

To ar?"

"Black is fine"

"Both black," he called out

There was no reply, but I assu taken care of He turned his attention back to ht Did he have desk space down here?"

"He had a desk up front, but that was cleared out, oh, I’d say within a day of the accident Nobody thought he’d survive, you know, and we had to bring somebody else in pretty quickly This place is a s?"

"I dropped them by the house myself There wasn’t much, but we put e came across in a cardboard box and I passed it on to Derek, I don’t knohat he did with it, if anything Glen was at the hospital twenty-four hours a day at that point"