5 million?"Carson mostly listened for a couple of minutes, looking stunned. Then, "You're absolutely positive?"Several seconds of listening later, Car...son said, "I'm absolutely astonished. I'll tell Katie. Thanks, Prof."Carson hung up, then said, "I think I need a drink."He looked shaky, but Ava leaped to her feet saying, "I'll get you one Dad. Whiskey?" Ahh, maybe I'd better not, dear. I'm not supposed to drink alcohol now. On second thought, to hell with it. A whiskey would be great, thanks. ’ Such were the words Cindy Ross uttered to me in my office. I could understand why. It was in August and she was still on ‘light duty’ as she recovered from her near-fatal wounds. Though brevetted a Lieutenant, she was not yet allowed to really take over the MCD leadership duties nor could she join her fellow detectives in their field investigations until she re-qualified with a gun. She wanted to get back into the game, and I couldn’t blame her. ‘Tell you what I’m going to do, my friend.’ I. Perhaps there was a little relief in there also. "Someone else?" I asked, afraid if what I was hearing was actually the truth, yet some deep part in my gut told me it was. He nodded before speaking again. "I can't really go into any detail without being punished. I mean, that's what's happening to you." "Me?" I prodded my own chest with a finger. He nodded only once. "That's right. You. So, if you don't mind. I hate to be rude, but I've got a paper due in less than a week and I need to get. " Fading they might have been, but our bottoms were still colourful and mine was particularly tender and I hadn't wanted to sit on the loo when I got up. Roger made a great fuss over his but his stripes were losing their colour."I sure will sergeant," the woman grinned. She made Roger hold my hand and we set off in hot sunshine at a fairly slow pace because of her size. Rather insanely I wondered what we would do if her water broke while we were en-route but we arrived without incident and.