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A nurse popped her head into the rooot a call for you at htened, shrugging to Maggie "I’ll be right back"
"Who is it?" he asked the nurse as he stepped into the hallway
"Doctor LePont Pierre LePont Froue"
She left hi about with breakfast trays, doctors droning on as theyabout their medicine carts
He felt a heaviness in his heart
"Pierre, please don’t tell hastly hastly scene on ot a guy killed twice here"
"What?"
"Early, earlypulled out for autopsy He was lying on a gurney nice and quiet"
"They usually do, don’t they?"
"Usually, yeah"
"But"
"Well, soain"
"You’re notuy’s head off He’s been decapitated, Lieutenant How soon can you get down here?"
"Fifteen o with him She was insistent
He was equally deter to drive Maggie to Montgo replaced by another cop in a few minutes
Sean didn’t knohy he was so deterie with him, he just was He was head over heels in love with her, she was the best thing that had ever happened to hiht Maybe she knew thehim Maybe she knew the murderer and didn’t even realize that she knew hiie a little in the dark about developue, Pierre showed hiriet it," Sean said
"I wish I had some answers for you"
"You sure he was dead when he came in here?" Sean asked
"Oh, come on, you’re a cop! You killed him You know damned well he was dead"
"Yeah, I suppose" Sean lifted his hands "Maybe we’reMaybe the decapitation is soI don’t know" He sighed "Well, let et back with in towith everyone in the place Jenson, the night guard, swore he’d been in front of the door without ht force had
Guys froer and footprints None could be found The bone sahich apparently had been utilized for the grisly deed, iped clean Gil, the specialist, warned Sean, "We’ve got prints fro we’ll find they belong to the docs and the technicians I’ll keep you posted"
Pierre walked back out to Sean’s car with him "Not that it was impossible for anyone to couard did take a bathroom break Suppose my employees were all in different labs It’s just bizarre"
Sean agreed Bizarre
"Thanks, and do keepbehind the driver’s seat of his car It was a beautiful day Blue sky, little puffing clouds The sun beaht atht did coave hi