Chapter 119 A Satisfying Crunch

• Thursday, July 21, 2005 -- 12:15 p.m.
• I walked into the hallway where there were a row of offices. It was lunch time and most if not all of the professors were grabbing lunch. I'd checked to make sure of that. Only one was in his office, waiting for a call from the Clerk of the Court's office about an unpaid traffic ticket, which he'd said he had no knowledge of.
• The secretary for him and two other professors sat at her desk. She was supposed to be gone to lunch. This was a complication. Carlos and Ernesto walked in behind me and stood on other side of her desk. She looked at the three of us with no alarm, at first. Then as she saw my face she reached for the telephone on her desk.