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"Let me have the key, Mike I want to take another look in there"

"Here you go!" Mike handed hi looked any different than it had when he’d been in there a few days ago to search for the wallets that had "disappeared"

He sat on the bed Mike’s housekeeping staff was good; the cell was iht he’d find in the cell but he began to go through the drawers They were e James version of the Bible

He sat back down on the bed, wondering what Jay Berotten hi there that the door to the tiny bathroo I’host would actually ue iman always appeared as a solid entity to him He’d never been sure if he was crazy or not; he’d decided he’d consider himself functional, if crazy, and learn to live hat he either did or didn’t see

But now, it see it, he needed to investigate the small bathroom that had been built into the cell

Shower, sink and toilet were almost on top of one another The tile floor was clean and the wastebasket under the sink had been e over the sink and a small cabinet, which had been nailed over the toilet, held the usual tiny containers of lotion, shampoo, conditioner and soap

And a tissue box

Sloan picked up the box There were remnants of a piece of paper beneath it Apparently, so into the sink So behind the little corner of paper

All that remained were a few blurred words He frowned as he studied them

DES DIA

It could only ht not ht have told Jay Bero to have pizza, coffee or buy souvenirs

He looked into the mirror and froze To his astonishment, he saw more than his own reflection there For ainto thehis eyes

It was Trey Hardy, his pluri away until he was nothing but a n of insanity

It was late in the day when Jane finally returned Kanga to Sloan’s stable and took the patrol car back to the station Betty was just about to leave

"Jane!" she said, pausing to greet her before walking out "How’s the work going?"

"The work--oh, it’s going very well"

"I wish I knew more about what you do!" Betty said enthusiastically "It’s science and it’s art!"

Jane smiled "I’m lucky I love my job The form of the human skull shapes the face, but it’s the soft tissue that really creates the unique appearance of each hu"

"How accurate can you be? When did people learn how to do this?" Betty asked

"Pretty accurate A lot is in the hands of the artist, especially where coloring coround can often be determined by the skull There was a French anatomist named Paul Broca as the first to use scientificthe relationship between the bone and the soft parts That was in the late 1800s," Jane told Betty "This is probablyyou"

"No, I’m fascinated I didn’t know any of this"