Fs that were referred to by your witnesses in the
last hearing, over thirty times, yet never once were they given into
evidence."

"What are you going on about?" Anuse feigned boredom.

"I am talking about the student SmurFFs that I requested at the last
hearing. The charge was made that the 'suspect' SmurFFs were totally
different from normal student SmurFFs and I need those for you to see
that in reality, they are quite similar."

"I'm willing to believe the testimony that they exist and what they are
represented to be. I don't need to see them in person." Nonchalantly,
Anuse destroyed any illusion of committee impartiality with this
remark. The committee's report to The Pope would remove any doubt that
might linger.

Henry called a recess. It always seemed to work to break up the flow.

Chapter 32

When the hearing commenced again, the document examiner began his
testimony. "I have examined the documents in question and found that
six were written by Diana Trenchant and two probably were."

Allen Avery was a tall, heavy-set man, florid of face and nearly as
ugly as Jimbo. He looked like a twenty-year cop and lowered his
monster brows fiercely at Diana whenever he referred to her. His
presentation was not as ornate as that of Alice Stebbins. Instead of
using blown up photographs of individual letters, he passed out copies
of a single sheet on which there were two columns of letters.

One column was labeled standard, the other unknown. He testified that
he had found enough similarities in these particular letters to
identify the writer.

Frank Anuse asked if another examiner would find the same similarities
in the same letters.

The answer was, "Given equal training, they should pick out the same
things that I did." He went on to explain that examples were given in
books and the document examiners studied the books.

On being asked if the material could have been written by an expert
forger, he answered much differently than the first document examiner.
"Who would know? I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but I don't feel
that it was." If the women on the panel had been alert, they would
have challenged a scientist that felt a conclusion--feelings were more
in the realm of the arts. Science was supposed to deal with facts.

He explained that he had asked for more standards because the ones sent
were not complete. Yet the first analyst had said she was
one-hundred-percent certain o