In the first few days after the explosion, Gregor Demarkian found himself getting up in the middle of the night to look at what was left of Holy Trinity Armenian Christian Church. It wasn’t easy. Even in the days when the church was still standing in the ordinary way, even when it was decorated top to bottom by Donna Moradanyan Donahue on one of her periodic holiday enthusiasms, it was still more than a block away and set back from the sidewalk to make room for the three shallow steps that led to its front doors. Gregor had never had any idea what the steps were for. Maybe the men and women who built the church believed that people should ascend on their way to talk to God. Maybe the church had been built before the sidewalk and the street paving had been put in, and there was some worry that without a few steps to wipe their feet on, people might track mud into the church. None of these thoughts made any sense at all, and none of them mattered, but Gregor found it hard to look up the street without thinking about something besides the obvious. It was a good thing the bomb had not been as big as it had sounded to Tibor on the night it went off. There was some of Holy Trinity Church still left, even if it wasn’t of much good to anybody. Even more important, only the buildings directly next to the church had been in any way damaged. According to the bomb expert sent out by the police on the morning after, and according to the bomb expert at the FBI, for whom Gregor had pulled in a few markers for him to come out and look at the scene, much more firepower and all the buildings on the block, on both sides of the street, might have suffered “structural damage.” Gregor had heard the words structural damage a thousand times before without knowing what they meant, or even wondering. Now he knew. They meant that the ground had rattled so much, it had made the foundations of the buildings disorganized and unsafe.
Now it was not the middle of the night, but the early morning—6:45 in the morning on November 13, to be exact. Gregor finished shaving in front of the enormous vanity mirror Bennis had installed in his bathroom and reached for the toothpaste and his toothbrush, feeling as disoriented as he ever had in his life. He could still remember, with perfect clarity, the first time he had ever seen a dead body that wasn’t laid out in a casket for a wake. It was his first year at the FBI and he was the junior partner on a kidnapping detail, the kind of thing that usually required nothing more from the agents but sitting by a phone and recording ransom demands from half-demented fools who hadn’t realized how difficult it would be to actually collect a large amount of money in small bills. That was why he had been assigned to that particular case. You didn’t send brand-new agents out of Quantico into one of the nastier situations, even if you thought you had no choice. This time, though, the half-demented fool had been a manic-depressive, or maybe stoked out on the kind of drugs that made mood swings behave like roller-coaster rides. Every time he called to give instructions about the ransom, he got crazier—and unlike most kidnappers, he called a lot, over and over again, apparently heedless of the fact that it was going to be possible, eventually, to trace those calls. Still, that was a long time ago and the technology hadn’t been as good then as it was now. He might have gotten away with it if his only problem had been a desperate need to talk. Instead, he’d also had a desperate need for validation, or absolution, or something that was so mixed up in his brain he couldn’t put it into words and he couldn’t live without it. During the fifth phone call his voice began to squeak and soar. The experienced agent on the case was as tense as Richard Nixon at a press conference. The kidnapper was losing it, and even Gregor had been able to understand that. He might have been inexperienced as an agent, but he’d spent his time in the army. He knew the sound of panic when he heard it. He also knew the sound of gunfire when he heard it, and that was what came next. The explosion was so loud that the woman whose daughter had been kidnapped screamed and dropped the phone. A second later, she was holding her ear, doubled over in pain. Gregor held his breath. If the phone went to dial tone, it would mean the child was dead. The phone did not go to dial tone.
They found the child, and the kidnapper, two and a half hours later. With the phone line open and nobody to hang it up, it was easy to trace. The child was locked in the bathroom, sitting in the bathtub in tears, but not otherwise hurt. The kidnapper was lying half-on and half-off the big double motel bed he’d been sitting on when he made the call and put the gun to the side of his head. If you’re going to shoot yourself, never shoot yourself in the side of the head, Gregor’s instructor at Quantico always said. Shots to the side of the head often didn’t work, and what happened was that you were left alive but worse off than before, brain-damaged, immobile, a walking vegetable. In this case, the man had been lucky, if you could call it that. He was most certainly dead. The side of his skull on the far side of the shot had exploded outward, splattering blood and skin and bone all over the motel bed’s bedspread and the window in the wall beyond it. His eyes were wide open and caught in a paralysis so profound, Gregor couldn’t shake the feeling that they were trying to communicate something. It was the first time he’d realized that the newly dead did not look dead so much as hyperalive. Their eyes tried to catch and hold you. If you were there at the critical moment, their arms reached out for you. Gregor had always wondered if they were trying to hold on to life or trying to drag you into the tunnel along with them.
He wiped the froth of toothpaste off his mouth. He washed his face again. He gave a little consideration, but not much, to Bennis’s suggestion that he might look good with his hair cut short enough to almost look shaved. He put the towel back on the rack and went down the hall to the living room. Bennis was standing at the big front window, doing what he himself had been doing during the night for days: twisting sideways to see if she could see what was left of Holy Trinity. She was as “dressed” as she was going to get for the day, meaning a turtleneck and flannel shirt and jeans. She was having no more luck than he did when he tried to see the church. In the first two days after the explosion, crews had come out from the city to clean up the mess. The entire facade of the church was gone. What was left was something like a stage set, with the pews and aisles and altar exposed to anybody who wanted to come by and see what they were like. Bennis had her arms wrapped around her body so that she could twist more easily against the glass. If this had been a year or two ago, she would have been smoking.
“It doesn’t work, you know,” he told her. “I try it all the time. We never could see Holy Trinity very well from here, even when it was standing.”
“It’s still standing,” Bennis said. “All except one wall of it. Yes. I know. You don’t have to bring it up again. It will have to come down.”
“It was an old building, and it was built by people who didn’t have the kind of resources you need to put up something solid for the ages to begin with. It would have had to come down anyway, eventually. Tibor’s said so, more than once.”
“I don’t think this is what he meant, do you? Although I’ve got to admit, it’s going to put a crimp into Howard Kashinian’s lectures about how the church is solid as a rock and it would just be a waste of money to build a new one. I gave a little money to the rebuilding fund, did I tell you?”
“No. Everybody else on the street told me. That was a rather dramatic gesture.”
“Yes, well. I make all this money and I never spend any of it. I mean, let’s face it. I don’t like jewelry. I don’t take elaborate vacations. I do have the car, but at the rate I drive it I’m still going to have it in the third millennium. Does it make me a bad person that I’m not more upset about Tony Ross?”
“I don’t think so,” Gregor said. “Are you coming down to the Ararat with me? I know you don’t like talking to John Jackman, but in this case you might—”
“No,” Bennis said. “That’s all right. I don’t mind talking to John anymore. All emotions wear out. Did I ever tell you that my sister Myra tried to marry Tony once? This was back the year she was coming out. Tony was, I think, a year older than she was, still at Yale or wherever, but you could see even then that he was going to be something extraordinary. And Myra being Myra, she was determined to marry something extraordinary. But Tony didn’t seem to be interested.”
“From what you’ve told me about your sister Myra, that might not be surprising.”
“It wasn’t.” Bennis stopped twisting in the window. “You really can’t see it. I never noticed that before. Maybe I never tried to see it before. God, what a mess. Tibor’s coming home from the hospital today. Did I tell you that? Donna and I are going to go pick him up.”
“Yes, you told me that. He’s all right, you know, Bennis, he wasn’t really hurt. It was mostly shock and precaution.”
“I was thinking we could put him in my apartment. I never use it these days anyway, and he can’t go back to his place. It’s still standing, but it isn’t safe. God, what’s he going to do about all the books? He won’t let them get plowed under. You know how he feels about books.”
“I know how he feels about books.”
“Of course, it will mean he won’t be able to pretend not to know we’re living in sin, or whatever it is we’re doing. Do you think he thinks that, that we’re living in sin?”
“I don’t know. I doubt it. Tibor doesn’t usually think things like that.”
“I don’t really know how Tibor thinks,” Bennis said. “We treat him like a pet, or at least I do. We find him endearing. But that isn’t what he’s about at all, I don’t think. It really was a bomb, wasn’t it, Gregor? I mean, the bomb squad couldn’t be mistaken. It couldn’t have been a gas explosion or something like that.”
“The church has electric heat. And no, I don’t think the bomb squad was mistaken, although we’ve still only got a preliminary report.”
“It just seems so awful to me that anybody would deliberately try to bomb Holy Trinity Church. Awful and ridiculous. Does that make sense to you? It makes sense to me that somebody might want to kill Tony Ross. He was rich as hell and he was the head of a big investment bank and he made decisions all the time that affected people’s lives. But this is Holy Trinity Church. It’s a little Armenian church on a side street in Philadelphia that isn’t important to anybody at all except the people who live here. It isn’t even in one of those categories that the hate groups go after. It’s not a black church. It’s not a synagogue. Tibor doesn’t mix in politics except for voting in every election. It doesn’t make any sense.”
“It will when we find whoever did it. Probably.”
“Probably?”
“Let’s just say it will make sense of a kind, no matter what,” Gregor said. “Sometimes the rationale for these things is not necessarily contaminated with linear thought. Get your shoes on and come to the Ararat with me. John may not have anything to report, but he’ll be good to talk to. And you can see everybody and commiserate with them. Again.”
“Linda Melajian told me yesterday that the Ararat is full for every meal these days but it’s like being at a wake. Everybody just … sits there.”
“You should know. You haven’t eaten at home since it happened.”
“You can’t eat here, Gregor. I can’t cook, and you think stocking the refrigerator means buying two boxes of Dunkin’ Donuts and putting them on different shelves.”
“You can eat the Dunkin’ Donuts,” Gregor said.
Bennis marched away from the window, past the long black leather couch, into the foyer. A moment later, Gregor heard the sound of clogs against hardwood and reached for the jacket he had left over the back of a chair.
“Now I’m ready and you’re not,” she called. The clogs went back and forth across the hardwood, back and forth, back and forth.
Gregor considered telling her that it was obvious she’d been crying, but in the end that did not seem to be a sensible thing to do. It would only get her started talking about Emotions, which she could do all day, in intimate detail, and he couldn’t do at all. He not only couldn’t talk about them, he often couldn’t recognize them. He had only two labels for what he felt most of the time, “good” and “not good.” He had one more label for use in emergencies— “scared”—but that one was rarely necessary. Even now, when every muscle in his body was fighting urgently for paralysis, for collapse, for anything at all that would release him from the necessity of walking down Cavanaugh Street in front of that bombed-out church—even now, he wouldn’t call what he felt “scared.” He didn’t know what it was.
“Gregor.”
He threw the jacket over his shoulders and went out into the foyer, where Bennis was waiting for him. It was cold as hell outside, but she was not wearing her jacket, and wouldn’t if he asked her to. He got his own coat off the rack and put it on. She walked away from him and out the door onto the landing.
There really had been a time, he thought, years ago, before his wife had died, before he’d retired from the Bureau, before he’d moved back to Cavanaugh Street, when he hadn’t had anything more complicated to think about than the paperwork required to document the interstate tracking of serial killers. He was not Bennis Hannaford’s lover, or Tibor Kasparian’s friend, or the man a lot of people looked to to make sanity prevail in a thoroughly insane world. He did not remember the change coming over him. He could not pinpoint the one moment when he had begun to be someone he had never been before. He couldn’t even tell if he liked this version of himself better than he liked the other.
What he did know was that, no matter how much he wanted to talk to John Jackman and find out what the police had on both the bombing and the murder out in Bryn Mawr, he’d be content to be ignorant for the rest of his life if it meant he didn’t have to walk past the front of that exploded church. He had walked past it, two or three times a day, every day since it happened, but he wasn’t used to it, and he didn’t think he ever would be. If he’d been a different kind of man, he would have packed everything he owned into a couple of suitcases and taken off for a place where nobody had ever heard of Holy Trinity Church. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to go anywhere where nobody had heard of Tony Ross.
Oddly, it was much less difficult for Gregor to actually walk down the street in front of Holy Trinity Church than it was for him to think about doing it. The church always looked far less damaged than he had imagined it was, and he was able to ignore the fact that he knew it looked far less damaged than it actually was. The police had cordoned off the sidewalk directly in front of it. Anybody walking down Cavanaugh Street on that side now had to cross the street to continue. They had put a guard there the first two nights. The guard had disappeared on the third morning, far sooner than Gregor thought appropriate. In an FBI investigation, it would have taken far longer than this to gather the necessary evidence. He was determined to keep his disapproval to himself. John Jackman was now commissioner of police in Philadelphia. He was here because he was taking a personal interest in this case, and that at a time when all the police departments from the city down the length of the Main Line had been pressed into emergency service in the murder of Tony Ross. And it wasn’t just the police departments. You could see the problem was that the media had started out only vaguely interested—oh, murder at one of those fancy estates in Bryn Mawr; good for a week or two; yawn—and then woken up to what had really happened. One of the most powerful men in the world, one of the men who ran the banks and dictated policy to governments, had been killed by a sniper with a silencer on the front steps of his own house. At any other time, the destruction of Holy Trinity Church would have been big news in Philadelphia. There would have been an outpouring of support and a concentration on the human angle. There might even have been a fund to rebuild the church. Gregor found that he resented, more than a little, that none of that was happening. It didn’t matter that Tibor wouldn’t need a fund to get the church rebuilt. People on the street would give what they could, and in some cases that was plenty. It mattered that nobody was paying attention. This had to be the worst hate crime in the history of the city. Nobody was noticing.
John Jackman was standing at the door to the Ararat up ahead, bent over old Marta Varnassian, who seemed to be lecturing him. Since old Marta Varnassian lectured everybody, usually on the perfidy of all Turks everywhere, this was not surprising, but Gregor found it both hopeful and incredible that Marta was talking to John at all. There was a time when Marta would no more have had a conversation with a black man, even about the Turks, than she would have made love to the president of Turkey on the church steps at high noon. Maybe it was John’s two-thousand-dollar suit. Maybe it was just that John had been around so much in the last few years, Marta now thought he was Armenian.
“There’s John,” Bennis said.
“Looks good, I think,” Gregor offered, neutrally. Once, back when he and Bennis had first met, he was fairly sure that Bennis had had an affair with John Jackman. It was something they never talked about, just like they never talked about any of the other men she had had affairs with, including the governor of a large western state and a member of the Rolling Stones. In their case, it was Bennis who had had wild oats to sow.
“John always looks good,” Bennis said. “It’s that goddamned bone structure. Doesn’t it bother you that you can see all the pews and they’re still there and nobody has bothered to move them to someplace safe.”
You couldn’t see the pews at all, from here. They had walked past the church and the building on its right side, which had had to be evacuated. The building on its left side had had to be evacuated too. At this point, there was no way to know if those buildings could be repaired or if they would have to be torn down. Gregor worried more about the fate of the people who had lived in them than he worried about the fate of Holy Trinity Church.
John Jackman shook Marta Varnassian’s hand, gravely. She patted him on the arm and made her way through the doors of the Ararat to whomever was waiting for her there. Marta would not eat breakfast in a restaurant on her own. That meant at least one of the other Very Old Ladies must have come with her. John straightened up and waved to them. He was staring, slightly, at Bennis, but she was not staring back.
“Hi,” he said, when they reached them. “Interesting woman, that was. Mrs. Varnassian. Did the Turks really invade Armenia this morning?”
“It was in 1915,” Gregor said.
“Oh.”
“Hi, John,” Bennis said.
“I caught Linda a second ago,” John said. “She’s saving us a table, but not the one at the window. Do you know what she’s talking about?”
“Yes,” said Gregor. The window table was the one where he usually sat with Tibor and old George Tekemanian and whoever else wanted to join them. Today, Tibor was in the hospital, and old George was out on the Main Line staying with his nephew Martin, whose wife Angela had decided that Cavanaugh Street was not a safe place for him to be.
They went into the Ararat. Linda waved them toward a table along the far wall, marked out from the rest by a big black-and-white reserved sign stuck into the metal sugar packet holder.
“That’s subtle,” John said.
Gregor sat down. “There’s not a hope in hell that it will be private. You know we’ll have people coming over here as soon as we get settled. They want to know.”
John sat down too. Bennis waved to Linda for the coffee and then curled into a chair like a sick cat. John looked her over quickly, and only once, and then looked away.
Linda Melajian arrived with the coffee and three cups. She put one down in front of John Jackman and said, “I hope you’re going to do something about whoever did this. I hope you don’t have your mind all messed up by debutantes on the Main Line.”
“John loves debutantes on the Main Line,” Bennis said.
“Behave yourself,” John said. He reached for the little metal pitcher of cream. Linda knew better than to bring nondairy creamer to his table. “We’re doing everything we can. It might be less than you’d like.”
“Somebody planted a bomb, for God’s sake. There must be some way to send him to jail. Or something worse.”
“We’ll do our best,” Jackman said.
She marched off without taking their order. Jackman watched her go. “Well,” he said, “I suppose that’s not all that odd. Everybody’s upset. Everybody deserves to be upset.”
“Part of it’s just that there’s no way to stop thinking about it,” Gregor said. “The church is out there with the whole front wall blown off, practically. Everybody has to pass it every day.”
“I wish you’d left the guard there longer,” Bennis said. “Whoever it was could come back. And even if he doesn’t, children could get into there and hurt themselves.”
“At the moment, we’ve got practically every cop in the city and four of the townships working on the Tony Ross murder, or guarding somebody or something connected to the Tony Ross murder. I know that sounds unfair to you, but under the circumstances it makes sense. I don’t know if you realize it, but the first lady of the United States was in a car not more than a mile from Ross’s front gate when the shooting started. Another five minutes, and the place would have been lousy with secret service officers.”
“And the shooting would never have happened,” Bennis said.
“Not necessarily,” John said. “Considering how cleanly whoever it was got away, what might have happened was a couple of more people dead. That is, assuming this turns out to be politically motivated, or domestic terrorism, which is what the FBI thinks it’s going to be when they finally get it figured out.”
“Do you agree?” Gregor asked.
John shrugged. “It seems likely. That had to be a professional, the guy who got Ross. That whole thing was just too damned clean for it to have been anything else.”
“There’s always dumb luck,” Gregor said.
“Not often. And not right between the eyes,” John said.
Bennis looked away. “Do you notice what happens? Whenever anybody starts talking about the church, they end up talking about Tony Ross. Even we do it.”
“I thought domestic terrorism meant homemade bombs and the militias,” Gregor said. “That doesn’t sound professional.”
“Things have changed a lot since your day,” John said. “Lots of the guys in the militias are ex-military and lots of them are good at what they do. God only knows they can buy whatever they want in terms of weapons and ammunition.”
“So what happened to the church?” Bennis said.
Linda Melajian came back. Bennis ordered fruit and cheese. John Jackman ordered fruit and cheese. Gregor ordered three scrambled eggs, a side of hash browns, a side of sausage, and some buttered toast.
“Still suicidal, I see,” John said.
Bennis waved it away. “What about the church?” she said. “You’ve had four days, you disappeared after two, there’s a big hole in the street, there must be something—”
“There is something.” Jackman pulled a small notebook out of the inside pocket of his jacket. “First, it was a small bomb—”
“Small?” Bennis said.
“Very small,” John said. “Bennis, if that had been a bomb of any significant size, it would have taken down the whole church and the buildings next to it and destabilized all three blocks. It doesn’t take much. That’s why they’ve got all that special architecture in California to handle even tiny earthquakes.”
“So what kind of a bomb are we talking about?” Gregor said. “Dynamite? Remote-controlled? What?”
“We think, from what we got out of the rubble, that there were three small pipe bombs. Very small. Plastic explosives, the kind you can pick up on the black market for cheap. Nothing particularly fancy. This, by the way, is the kind of thing most people associate with the militias. Somebody could store the materials for this kind of thing in their basement, and nobody would know a thing about it. That’s just what the militias do, really. They’ve got their stuff stashed in basements, in rec rooms, in the backs of SUVs.”
“But why would a militia want to blow up Holy Trinity Church?” Bennis asked. “It doesn’t make sense, does it? They blow up government buildings, and that kind of thing.”
“I’m not saying it was a militia,” John Jackman said. “I’m just saying the method used corresponds to what we used to associate militias with, oh, maybe ten or fifteen years ago. What interests me, and what interests the police in Bryn Mawr, are the connections.”
“The connections between what?” Gregor asked.
“Between the bombing here and the murder of Tony Ross.”
“Oh, for God’s sake,” Bennis said. “You can’t honestly tell me that just because I was at that party and Gregor came with me and we both live on Cavanaugh Street that somebody went around killing Tony Ross and blowing up Holy Trinity Church on the same night to, to—to do what? What would be the point?”
“I have no idea what the point would be,” John said, “I’m just letting you know what’s going on. And it’s more than that you and Gregor were at that party. It’s what Father Tibor was doing the night of the explosion. He was at Adelphos House. Do you know about Adelphos House?”
“Of course I do,” Bennis said. “It’s an outreach house for child prostitutes. The church is involved in some kind of volunteer thing with them, or it was going to be. Are you trying to tell me that Tony Ross was seeing child prostitutes?”
“No, I’m trying to tell you that Adelphos House was founded by and is run by Tony Ross’s sister.”
“What?” Bennis looked truly shocked.
John Jackman flipped through a few pages of his little notebook. “Anne Ross Wyler,” he said. “A year older than her brother. Came out at the Philadelphia Assembly. Graduated from Wellesley College in 1971. Married Dutton Wyler in 1980. Divorced him in 1985—”
“He was one of those people,” Bennis said. “They never do anything. They get born rich and they go to parties.”
“Not what the Ross siblings were into, I take it,” John said. “Anyway, the details of her life between ’85 and ’96 are sketchy at best, but in ’96 she went to work for a settlement house in New York. She stayed there two years. Then she came back to Philadelphia and opened Adelphos.”
“I think Bennis’s original objection still stands,” Gregor said. “That’s a very tenuous connection. How would Tibor’s interest in doing something to help Adelphos House connect to Tony Ross’s murder?”
“How would anything connect to Tony Ross’s murder?” John said. “It’s not like we know what we’re doing here, and the FBI doesn’t know either, no matter what they try to tell me. The point is that the connections exist, and we have to follow them up.”
“Even though the two methods seem to be so at odds with each other?” Gregor asked. “Professional quality in the murder of Tony Ross. Amateur fun with explosives in the bombing of Holy Trinity Church.”
“We’ve got to start somewhere,” John said, “and that’s true with the problem with the church as well as with the murder of Tony Ross. Look, we found pieces of the bombs. We might be able to trace some of the materials. It’s a long shot, but we might. In the meantime, do you have any information besides the connections to the Ross murder that might help us out? Has there been any vandalism? Nasty words spray-painted on the church, or on Tibor’s apartment? Hate mail?”
“Of course not,” Bennis said. “This is Cavanaugh Street, for God’s sake.”
“What about the people who live here?” John asked. “And don’t tell me it’s Cavanaugh Street. Has anybody had an argument with Father Tibor? Has he been riding anybody’s case, come down on sin a little hard lately, had a dispute with a tenant, anything?”
“He doesn’t have any tenants,” Gregor said, “and the church doesn’t either.”
“What about that stuff he writes?” John was being patient. “Has he been writing letters to the editor about politics lately? About Armenia? About September eleventh?”
“I don’t think he writes letters to the editor,” Bennis said.
“How about the Internet?” John tried again.
Gregor looked quickly at Bennis, and then away. He always forgot about the Internet, because he used it so seldom himself. “I forgot about the Internet. He does talk politics on the Internet, but not the way you’d think. He goes to this chat room—”
“It’s not a chat room, it’s a newsgroup,” Bennis said. “A Usenet newsgroup. And it’s not about politics, it’s about mystery stories. Rec.arts.mystery.”
John Jackman took out his pen. “Repeat that for me, please. WWW …”
“No,” Bennis said. “It’s not a Web site. There’s no www. It’s a newsgroup. I’m not sure how you get on it usually, but on AOL you do control-K. Then you type in newsgroups. Then you can find it by clicking on search all newsgroups and asking for it. I’m probably not making much sense. I could show you if we got to a computer.”
“Don’t worry about it. We’ve got guys in the department who know all about this stuff. Rec.arts.mystery.”
Bennis spelled it for him. “It’s his favorite thing to do when he isn’t reading.”
“Mystery stories doesn’t sound like what we’re looking for,” John said.
“Oh, they discuss everything,” Bennis told him. “And I do mean everything. Mystery stories, and theology and, yes, politics sometimes. I’ve forgotten all about it. He’s been in the hospital for days, and nobody’s told them. They get all involved with each other. They’ll be concerned.”
“One of them could be something else than concerned.”
“I suppose.” Bennis did not look happy. “It would be terrible if all this ended up being connected to RAM.”
“What?” John said.
“RAM,” Gregor repeated. “Rec.arts.mystery. RAM.”
“Oh.”
Linda Melajian was coming back with their breakfasts. Gregor’s took up two-thirds of the tray. John and Bennis each had a small round plate with a pear in the middle of it. The pears were stuffed with Danish blue cheese. Bennis stared at hers and went back to her coffee.
“Well,” John said. “There’s no use worrying about it now. Let me look into this stuff. Then I’ll get back to you. And don’t the two of you forget. You’re going out to Bryn Mawr to talk to Frank Margiotti. I don’t care if you talk to the FBI or not.”