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By the tiain, but Marcy had told hi and he’d instructed her to forward h the lab and finally ca at a stainless-steel counter with a sink, disposal, and hanging scales He was apparently about to launch into some procedure and I was sorry I had to interrupt

"I really didn’t mean to disturb you," I said "All I need is Kelly Borden’s address and telephone nu a wooden stool at one end of the counter And then to Marcy, "Why don’t you look up the information for Kinsey and I’ll keep her amused in the meantime"

As soon as she departed, I pulled the stool over and perched

For the first ti He earing surgical gloves, scalpel in hand There was a white plastic carton on the counter, a one-pint size, like the kind used for chicken livers in the meat section of the superans, which he began to sort through with a pair of long tweezers Against aze fix on this small pile of human flesh Our entire conversation was conducted while he trians

I could feel my lips purse in distaste "What are those?"

His expression was mild, i each of several hunks in turn I half expected the little s, but none of the Spleen Gall bladder

This fella died suddenly during surgery and nobody can figure out what his proble that?"

"Well, not always, but I think we’ll co in this case," he said

I didn’t think I’d ever look at stew meat in quite the sa process and I couldn’t get it throughparts of a huive any indication of it and I tried to be as nonchalant about the whole deal as he was

He glanced over at ure into this?"

"I’s that end up having no connection whatever to a case Maybe it’s the sa all the pieces of the puzzle until you come up with a theory"

"I suspect this is a lot more scientific than what you do," he remarked

"Oh, no doubt about it," I said "But I’ll tell you one advantage I have"

He paused, looking over at enuine interest I’d seen