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for a while. When he found that phone, his first reaction was
to do what he always did: mark it and send it on over to the
morgue to be handed over to whoever came to claim the body.
He didn’t do that. He kept it and now he fiddled with it. He
turned it on. He checked the contacts list. There was just one
number. No name came up, only a picture of a serious looking
young woman. He had put his thumb on the call button twenty
times and twenty times he had taken it off. Any other time he
would make the call, find out who was on the other end, offer
his condolences, and ask if they had any interest in claiming a
body. But this wasn’t any other time. His supervisor was clear:
no time on the clock for this one. Period. It came, he said, right
from the top. God knew what top he was talking about, but
Morgan backed off.
Still, Eugene Weller was interested in this guy who had
seriously disrupted Senator Patriota’s hearing. The lady lawyer
who had been in the room when he jumped was no slouch as
he had found out when he checked up on Josie Bates. It was
all feeling a little too over his head and the last thing Morgan
wanted to do was get on the bad side of Patriota or his geeky
goon, Weller.
Finally, he put the phone back in the evidence bag, took the
bag, and left the office. The cameras caught a picture of his
ample posterior walking down the hall, his equally impressive
stomach when he turned to go back from where he came, and
the moment after that when he turned around once more.
It took Officer Morgan a while but he finally made it
upstairs and over to the Russell Building where he checked in
with Weller’s secretary and asked to see the man himself.
Genie left him cooling his heels for ten minutes. One minute
longer and he would have left, but Eugene’s timing was good.
Morgan had no choice but to do what he came for.
“Brought you something, Genie. I logged it, but I didn’t call
the contact.” Morgan handed over the phone. “I’ll be happy to
if you want. This is probably the girl that was with him. Just