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‘Thank you So you didn’t recognise the voice over the intercom?’ PC Graham asked

‘Nobody spoke,’ Amy said ‘I just assumed it was a courier Then I heard what sounded like a baby’s cry I don’t knohy, but soo out and see for myself’

‘Just as well you did,’ the policeht have left the baby here?’

‘I don’t know anyone who’s pregnant,’ Amy said Mainly because she’d distanced herself fro for a baby, once she’d found out that she could no longer have children herself It had been too painful being reminded of what she’d lost

‘So what happens now?’ Josh asked

‘Once the social worker’s here, she’ll take the baby to the hospital,’ the policeman said

Josh shook his head ‘I don’t really think that’s a good idea Right now, the children’s ward is stuffed full of little ones with bronchiolitis’

‘Bronchi-what?’ PC Graham asked

‘Bronchiolitis It’s a virus,’ Josh explained ‘If adults catch it they get a really stinking cold, but in babies the s—the bronchioles—and they can’t breathe or feed properly Usually they end up being on oxygen therapy and being tube-fed for a week And I really wouldn’t want a newborn catching it—at that age it’s likely to be really serious’

‘What about the general ward?’ PC Graham asked ‘Could they look after her there?’

Josh shook his head ‘At this ti the rounds in all the wards As a newborn, she’s at high risk of picking up either or both’

The policeed and spread his hands ‘Then I don’t know We’ll see what the social worker says when she gets here’

By the tis of tea, PC Walters was back from his forensic examination of the hallway

‘Did you ?’ Amy asked

‘A set so from the box she left the baby in’ PC Walters looked at Aerprint powder’s a bit messy’

‘It doesn’tto vacuum it up afterwards,’ A that’ll help you find the baby’s mum’