al going back 20 to 30 years, what would have been
your conclusion?"

"I would have no conclusion."

"I am interested in your report of this note. The other unknown
material you were sent was written on evaluation forms. I am speaking
now of the note." Trenchant held up her copy.

Avery nodded and located his copy among the papers before him on the
table.

"Now, you report that you cannot be sure of the authorship of this note
which has quite a few words but you can be sure of the authorship of
this evaluation form which has only two words."

Avery found the other document referred to and looked at them and then
at his notes. "Yes," he agreed. "I could not be sure of the note
because it contains block printing."

"So do these other SmurFFs that you say you have identified. There is
some block printing on the note that we are talking about, but most of
it is small case printing."

"Well, there were not enough individualistic examples in the note to be
sure."

Henry wished that they had never let that note be sent to the document
examiners. It had been nothing but trouble and was not related to the
SmurFF forgery that Diana was charged with. That damn note which had
come out of nowhere--reportedly given Lyle by his good friend but never
verified, was not identified as being written by Diana by either of the
two document examiner firms. The two examiners also differed on the
identification of one of the 'suspect' medical school SmurFFs. One was
sure of Exhibit 2 but not of 3. The other was sure of 3 but not of 2.
Henry recalled that now both document examiner witnesses agreed that
the handwriting did change over the years. Jesus, if this woman keeps
it up, she'll destroy all our evidence. Quickly, Henry stepped in and
Amos Avery, the second document examiner that the Belmont
administration had hired, was excused.

Chapter 33

After Avery left the hearing room, Diana put the expert document
examiner's affidavit, that she had read from, into evidence. The
expert had sworn in this affidavit that all of the student evaluations
for the medical school courses for those years should be analyzed. It
was possible that another person or persons had handwriting or printing
that was similar to Diana's. She read this portion to the committee
and added that she hoped they would read the complete affidavit which
contained several pages of the document examiner's credentials.

All along, the women ke