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“The odds are that you’re right, but you know e report, fit the report into a shiny binder and your client will be impressed”

Both rinned “Keep me posted,” Gray said, and Jack promised that he would

Teeks later, Ballard phoned late one

“Got some stuff,” he said

Gray suggested they meet for lunch at a small Italian place midway between their offices

“So,” Gray said, after they’d ordered, “what do you have? Infores of BS in a shiny binder?”

Jack chuckled “Infores, but solid”

“You found Lincoln’s granddaughter?”

“No, not yet But I figured you’d want an update I found the tohere Orianna Lincoln lived and died, and some people who knew her”

“Orianna Lincoln,” Gray said “So, even though she was born after Ben and Nora were divorced, he acknowledged the child as his flesh and blood?”

“Careful, counselor” Ballard sat back as their first courses were served “You’re leaping to conclusions All I know is that Nora Lincoln put Ben Lincoln’s narape toorously “Orianna was born in ‘52, same as your uncle said, in a little town in Colorado Herafterward Orianna was bounced froht expect”

“Her father didn’t raise her?”

“Ben Lincoln? No He lit out for Alaska in ‘53, died up there in a blizzard a few years later The kid—”

“Orianna”