up and walked around the table to open
the door for her.

"We'll take a short recess," Henry announced.

During this recess, he told the panel that he had decided to adjourn
the hearing until the next day.

Henry had just reached the hallway of his home when the phone summoned
him with its strident demand to be answered. Loosening his tie with
one hand, he picked up the instrument with the other, "Yes, hello,
Tarbuck residence."

"Ah, good. You're home, Henry." This superb example of deductive
reasoning delivered in the imperious manner of a self-appointed
earth-god could only be The Pope.

"Yes, how are you, John?" Henry had pulled off his tie and was
settling himself comfortably in the chair next to the phone. "Sorry I
missed you when I returned to the office, but we decided to adjourn
early so I did a few errands I've been putting off and then I came
home."

"No problem, Henry. I just wanted to check with you to see how things
are going. Mark said there was a bit of a dust up over the file
material he sent the document examiners as standards?"

"Yes. Trenchant is making an issue of every little thing she can think
of. Actually, I think she must have some outside help--someone is
advising her. Perhaps even someone at Belmont."

"Giving you a lot of trouble, is she? Slap her down, Henry, slap her
down. We've got her good on this one. Mark tells me the document
examiner was one hundred percent sure that Trenchant wrote those
things," The Pope boomed expansively.

"That's correct. The only thing is the three women on the panel don't
place much confidence in the examiner's ability and right now they
aren't accepting her testimony. Besides that, Trenchant has a student
witness who claims that she, the witness, wrote one of those SmurFFs
our analyst said was written by Trenchant."

"My God. That doesn't sound good at all. I thought Mark said
handwriting analysis was as foolproof as fingerprints."

"Well, that's the legal argument lawyers use. Apparently, they aren't.
Trenchant gave us two cases as examples of these so-called experts
being fooled. One was concerning the Hitler Diaries and another she
called the White Salamander Affair. She also listed several other
sources for the panel to check on."

"What are you going to do? You've got to whip that panel in line and
do it fast, Henry, we're in this thing too deep to back off now."

"I know, and I'm on top of it. Mark is going to t