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son. Twice Calvin Hazzard caught himself filling up, but he held tight. |
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Calvin did not mention that for ten years he had bottled up the "minor liability" that eventually claimed the lives of his children. |
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Waite's eyes were on the Newsweek photo and write-up of Julius Wick. "So you're saying Wick rigged the job offer at NYPI and made an offer on the house you couldn't refuse?" |
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"And you think it's all connected to Sally?" |
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"Because of the story she was doing on the toxic dump in Magog Woods. The last time we talked, you said yourself you never believed the official story of her death, that it looked as if it had been staged." |
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"I said I was suspicious but I got over it" |
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"Well, I think you might have been dead right, because, according to the locals, BiOmega Labs was engaged in military research. Everything about the place was top secret. Nobody was even sure how many worked theremaybe just a handfuland they never let on about their work." |
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"But you couldn't expect them to, if it was classified." |
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"True, but they said they didn't even use their real names outside the labs." |
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"What the hell were they up to?" |
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"I don't know, but whatever it was, they didn't want their names on it. When rumors began to spread that somebody was using Carleton conservation land to bury their waste, your Sally came along threatening to blow their cover." |
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"So they ran her off the road," Waite said. "Like Karen Silkwood . . ." |
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"And with the same results: her death, and no way to prove it was murder." |
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"All in the name of national security." |
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"Or to cover up something that went dirty. Very dirty." |
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"Any idea what they were making?" |
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"No, but my guess is some kind of biochemical warfare material. Maybe with a genetic component. Tojian said the stuff is an artificial human hormone that apparently works havoc on human DNA. |
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