st certainly," Lyle continued, "I never knew that Diana had
copyrighted the radiology manual and most certainly, Ian and Randy did
not copy from it. That is ridiculous."

His pious account of the meeting with Diana in his office when he told
her of the document examiners findings, was ingenious. He claimed to
have been devastated at having to do that to an employee. He had
behaved with loving kindness throughout the "very painful interview.

"Of course no one in the department or among the medical students would
be afraid to come and testify. Perish the thought.

"I must have been misunderstood before when the panel got the
impression that ALL the critiques were good in this last year when
Diana did not teach. I thought I had made it clear that it was Ian's
SmurFFs that had improved markedly."

Still, Jane noted. He did not produce them for the panel to confirm
his testimony and the chair, despite the request of Diana that they be
solicited, did not ask for them.

When Henry hesitated, Trenchant reminded Lyle that student's likes and
dislikes of an instructor could vary wildly from year to year.
"Remember how great your SmurFFs were in the nursing course three years
ago?" She said. "Then the very next year, they were the pits. Isn't
that correct?"

Lyle reluctantly agreed that it was and Henry quickly took back the
questioning to bring Lyle to the crowning touch of his testimony before
Trenchant could further discredit him. Henry asked if he thought Diana
was unable to write because of an injured wrist during the December
last evaluation period. Proudly, Lyle presented two original
handwritten documents. "Both of these," he claimed, "were written by
Diana and I found them in my files."

"This one is dated in mid December, at the time she claims she could
not write," he smirked triumphantly at Diana.

"Did you write that?" Henry demanded of Diana, looking smug and
terribly well pleased with the way things were going.

"Yes, I did, but not in December. I wrote that after returning from
Christmas\New Year's vacation in January before the classes started.
This note refers to equipment I would require for the room I was
assigned to teach in during the winter semester. I was not assigned
that room until I returned from vacation in January so I wouldn't be
writing anything about fixtures in December. This is a fact that can
be verified.

"Look at this." Trenchant held up the paper for the panel to