ught forth information that Jane
thought might be triple hearsay.

He said, "I remember now that Jimbo told me that Lyle told him that
Lyle's friend had found the note."

Not a voice was raised in complaint from the panel. And not from me
either, thought Jane. I'm not sticking my neck out when a lawyer is
testifying.

Henry appeared to be pleased. Mark had done well enough even though he
had been a bit shaky on dates. Anyway, the panel didn't seem to
notice. He had established handwriting analysis as nearly
infallible--not by evidence, not by proof, but solely because he said
so.

He was pleased when cross examination by Diana was continually broken
into by the panel. As a result of this, the question of the dates when
these things happened was never really established. As things stood,
Lyle, Randy and now Mark had all given conflicting dates concerning
when these documents were sent out for analysis, when each received
them and what each received.

However, under tenacious questioning by Diana, Mark divulged that the
'strange' note, apparently sent as an afterthought, had only been
looked at by the examiners the day before coming to testify. That was
why he had only seen a copy of it since the original was given to them
on their arrival by Henry. Their opinion was not conclusive, but they
thought it probable that Diana had printed it. They were wise to
vacillate on this, Mark observed, since their supply of printing
standards was very limited.

Because of the way Mark presented this, the panel was left with the
impression that had there been enough standards, the document examiner
would certainly have found that Diana had printed it.

An angry exchange occurred when Diana protested strongly that here was
another piece of evidence that she was surprised with after being told
that she had received all of it.

Henry smiled vacuously and said, "It was introduced yesterday."

"I never saw it."

"It was in the analyst's report for you to see."

"Now you tell me."

"You could have read it anytime."

"When? Every time there was a break, you shooed me out of here."

"We needed this room to confer."

Anuse broke in to hammer home another spike of explanation in the maze
of questionable activity engaged in by the administration. "Mark, from
a legal point of view, can an employee's personnel records be sent out
for this type of analysis without the individual's permission or
verification?"

Mark