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Kramer, too, since he did most of the talkin' around these parts. Folks are gonna miss both of them." |
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Madden nodded his concurrence with Caleb's evaluation and turned to me. "What about you, Researcher?" |
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I shrugged my shoulders. "It's hard to say. We'll probably stick around another day or two and make certain we've got all our T's crossed and I's dotted. There's a lot about all of this I still don't understand. We all know what happened. I can see your point, though. Now that you've got your critter stretched out back there in the cooler, your job is done. If we do our job right, ours has only begun." |
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Kendall finished one stack of reports, picked up another and walked toward us. The classic square-cut jaw was covered with a growth of dull brown stubble and the penetrating icy blue eyes were haggard. "I reported in," he said wearily, "and told the dispatcher that it looked like everything was under control. He'll pass along my report to the Detco in the morning. You can figure our lab boys will be crawling all over this place for the next couple of days." |
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Jake and Caleb heaved a collective sigh. I glanced at my watch again and noted, somewhat ruefully, that it was now going on three o'clock in the morning. Under the standard E.G. Wages sleep plan I was scheduled to be up and at 'em in another |
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