Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“Set the hearing on her separation from Thom to Mondaymorning.”Glayet only grunted. She turned a knob on the panel andwords started going by in the glass covered, brass trimmedwindow next to it. She stopped turning when the words‘Separation Hearing,’ were in that window. She set the nextsimilar knob and window to ‘Monday’, the next to ‘Apr.’ andso on. “Who’s his lawyer?” Glayet asked.“I don’t know what name he filed, it’s a Shark-IV-e, amean one.”She got a loose leaf out of a stack of them in a box in theaged wooden control panel. She flipped thru it for awhile.“Ah here it is, a Shark-IV going by the name E. ClaytonBarrimore attorney at law, representing Thom Husband inmatrimonial matters brought by Ava Bancour.” She kept afinger on the page and dialed a ten digit number into somesmall dials along the lower left hand side of the panel. “anddo you know your lawyer’s name?”“L. Lincoln Fitzgerald,” she answered quickly.She put the first loose leaf back in the box and removedthe top one from the pile, flipped thru that about far enough tofind the ‘F’s and put her finger on an entry. Using thathandwritten entry, she then set the ten dials on the lower rightof the panel. Lastly she pushed a big white button stickingway out of the panel. It went way in with a scraping sound,then there was a loud clunk. “OK, you’re on for Monday,”she said.324