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I turned on Brad’s co to life with a soft click and a hiss A e on a blue screen asked me to enter iven ed it Of course I felt frustrated that I couldn’t double check his ees for evidence to support what he’d told us

“Can I help you?” The lanky fellow peered at me

I got up and extended ins”

“Jon Fielding” He gave aze drifted to a spot over my shoulder, then returned tohis voice “I’m not supposed to talk to anyone about Brad”

“Then I won’t ask about him Can you tell me if this office has security cameras in it?”

Fielding shook his head “Not that I know of Why?”

“Just curious” It was possible there were cameras the employees didn’t know about and possible they’d recorded so the company hadn’t told us about Possibilities I’d have to explore with Hirschbeck

Fielding looked over ain “I don’t think you should be on his computer, either”

“I’ et in anyway”

I stole a glance back at the monitor and noticed the screen saver had already kicked in A round Looking at that for ten minutes would have driven me mad

“I just wanted to check for anything that would support his story,” I told Fielding “Nothing cloak-and-dagger”

“Well, if you need a character witness for hilanced around

“You don’t believe he did it?”

“I don’t believe it, no” He paused and looked down “Ican’t really say more”

“That’s all right I don’t want you to get into trouble over this”