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The elevator doors opened

I wasn’t prepared for my first look at what lurked beneath Saint Vartan’s The bases and many Alice-in-Wonderland doors

It had the look of an underground city

CHAPTER 76

I TRIED TO take in the vast, hurade basement level

under Saint Vartan’s

The off-white painted walls were notched at intervals with intersections and blue doors that led to the boiler roo apparatus, maintenance services, kitchen facilities, laundry Pipes and tubes scaled the twenty-foot-high ceilings, which were paneled with fluorescent lighting that bleached this h shine

Along with the thu of fans, there was traffic aplenty:wheelchairs and gurneys Electric carts streaked past

Let me just say that the almost futuristic, machine-driven quality of the place was a little creepy

I looked to Conklin to see hoas taking it and saw that Kelly Caine had fixed her big brown eyes on Inspector Hottie and had sidled up inside his personal zone

I butted in

“The incineration facility?” I reminded her

“Right this way”

We followed the young woman down the ht down a spur of hallway to a door h ain that door and saw a large, blocky furnace in use A e room for us

A logbook was pro table Shelves wrapping around three sides of the rooned to the fire There were locks on both doors, and an operator was present “ to Kelly