“Watching the plasma screen, he fast-forwarded through the few minutes in question, but no one came out of the stairwell on either level except Mr. Big War Hero himself, Bailey Hawks, just a minute earlier.Vernon said, “If she really went down past you when you were on the second-floor landing—”“I was, she did,” Hawks said impatiently, like you weren’t supposed to doubt anything he said because he won a bunch of medals for croaking maybe five hundred unarmed old Muslim dames and setting their gr...andchildren on fire.“What did this woman look like?” Vernon asked.“She was a girl. Seven or eight years old.”Vernon raised his eyebrows. “You were following some little girl around the building?”“I wasn’t following her. She was dressed strangely. Like in a costume. She went down past me on the stairs.”“Well, the cameras say she didn’t. Unless she’s still in the stairwell, dead or not, or something.”Hawks tried to look baffled, but Vernon was pretty sure he saw guilt in those shifty money-manager eyes.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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