ry short note."

Well, this is not getting us anywhere, thought Henry, and I'd better
put a stop to it. "I fail to see what all this has to do with the
charge," he complained, petulantly.

Diana was ready for that one and answered succinctly, "According to
Lyle's testimony, he received the unused student evaluation forms for
that year from the dean's office on the tenth of December. Lyle
testified that they were given out to the students the same day. He
could not remember the exact day that he claims to have found the
'suspect' evaluations, but he did say that he found them sometime
during the same week. During that time I could not use my right hand
and I was not doing any writing, or printing for that matter."

"Oh." The sigh that went with it escaped before Henry could even
realize the 'Oh' had departed from his mouth. He looked frantically at
Anuse who appeared to have lost it and just shrugged his shoulders at
Henry's glance.

Wanting to spare James, if possible, from attack by either Henry or
Anuse when they recovered from shock, Diana quickly said, "Thank you,
James."

As soon as James had left, Diana continued, "Before I get to the next
witness, I refer you again to this memo." Trenchant replied. She held
the paper aloft in her hand. "Contained in the memo Lyle wrote to Dean
Broadhurst is the assertion that on March seventeenth, he 'discussed
the charges with me and recommended that I resign.' This is patently
false. He accused. He demanded. He was angry. He yelled. He said,
'you must resign, you have no recourse. The president, the vice
president and the academic council have met and demanded your
resignation.' He would not listen to me. He repeated several times
that I had been nothing but trouble to him ever since I took him to
court six years ago.

"He was abusive and he was angry. He said nothing about a hearing.
When I got a word in edgewise, I told him that I was going to contact
the ombudsman and he said that I couldn't--that I had no recourse.

"Later on when he finally stopped yelling and heard me deny his
charges, he told me that since I would not resign, there would be a
hearing but it wouldn't matter. It was just a formality. I would be
terminated, no matter what."

"You should have brought that up when Lyle was here so we would have
his response." Henry returned vigorously. I have to get on top of
this hearing and stay there no matter what, he thought.

"Should I ha