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mine. "What is your
question?"
"Do you know, or could you ask the daughters if there happened to be anyone
that their father trusted?
Trusted enough to talk to about anything? Besides his wife, I added.
Kugeler frowned. "I don't know anyone, but I didn't really know Evan that
well. I can't see that asking
that would hurt. Might I ask why?"
"Because I wonder if Evan McCall knew too much. With that sentence I was
committing myself at least
to a decision of reporting that his death was murder, even if I couldn't
identify the murderer.
"You do think it was murder, then?"
"You know I'm leaning that way, Mr. Kugeler. Right now, I have limited hard
evidence. Nothing that
points to anyone. Only that his death wasn't an accident. At the moment, if
you announce it, we'll lose all
chance of finding out whether we can discover more.
He nodded slowly. "I will ask Ms. Iveson and her sister, and I will insist
that they abide by your caution.
Is that all?"
"For now.
I was looking at a blank projection. Collapsed it. I felt better. Still rather
go with an unsolved murder than
anything else. Also felt I might be safer. Kugeler wasn't the type to let
matters rest if something happened
to me or anyone else. Still& decided I'd better be careful when I was out.
Sat back behind the desk again, just trying to let my thoughts settle
themselves.
Rain began to beat on the outside windows, but it only lasted ten minutes.
Fifteen at the most.
Lieutenant, you're getting good.
About what?
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Mountain House they're the charitable outfit that most of the filch give their
discards to. Not
quite three months ago, they picked up some rez equipment from the McCalls.
The dispatcher
remembered it because the staff went wild. Everyone wanted it. No one really
wanted to put it out
for sale in the thrift outlet. So they set a price on it, and let the staff
bid on it, and donated the
money to the Mountain House fund.
Does anyone recall exactly what it was?
I've got a description. The dispatcher and the manager documented it. They
were afraid not to
because it was so high end. Worth more than ten thousand creds new, they
estimated.
Lock in the description and send someone out to VR it as a visual deposition
for evidence.
Will do.
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Just hoped no one would ask me how it fit. I knew. Explaining it would be
tough, but I didn't want to let
that part slip.
Chapter 35 Cannon
Patience was usually rewarded in politics. Few impatient politicians ever
lasted, especially in the NorAm
Senate. So I sat tight and waited, and smiled, and went to committee meetings,
and the Senate floor, and
voted, and sent back targeted link messages to constituents, and talked with
Canthrop about the next
round of rezads. I also waited for Hansen's next round of attack ads. They
hadn't appeared, and that
bothered me. When someone changes their game plan, you'd better count on their
knowing something
you don't. Unless they're running out of credits, and Gill had assured me that
wasn't the case, that Heber
Smith had rounded up more than enough credits to run attack ads for six
months.
I'd also heard nothing from Kerras. Canthrop sent me a dataclip to my office
link that showed the story
Kerras had run on the music education amendment. Nice story, but short.
Canthrop had also sent it to
Gill, but Gill had sent back a message saying to hold off on using the story
and the related rezads until the
bill went to the Executive and was signed into law. That wouldn't be for
another few days, at least.
Kerras should have had some comment or reaction on the Kemal data, but maybe
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he'd been tied up with
the stories on the Martian Republic's reaction to the latest fabrications
coming out of the Agkhanate.
There were times to be patient, and times not to be. This was a time not to
be, and on Tuesday morning,
I headed over to Ransom Lottler's office. I didn't like doing it, but if you
wanted to meet with the
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