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something.”
    “ She do
it?” Judi asked.
    “ She’s on
the list. I think Porth is off and probably Goodwin. Maybe Graham,
but I have a few very pointed questions to ask about that one.
She’s got a lot to hide for some reason, but it may not be about
this mess.”
    “ Well,
Donna did tell me she slept her way through college and there were
some ... ethical questions when she was beginning practicing
phytopathological medicine.”
    “ Phytopathological?”
    “ Mostly
fungal infections, from what I understand. I don’t know what it was
about.”
    Clint sighed and nodded. “Tell Mario to put a
close watch on Donna’s place. The word will get out that there are
disks there and someone is going to try to get to them before we
do.”
    “ Uh-huh.”
     
    “ Dr.
Franklin, please have a seat,” Clint greeted. “We’ll take as little
of your time as possible. I think you’ll know the first
question?”
    “ Of
course. I was meeting with Dr. Marcos and a real estate agent by
the name of Sylvia Goldman from about ten o’clock until a bit after
two thirty. I’ll tell you it had to do with the embezzling taking
place. I’m doing a bit of investigating and Goldman was the agent
who handled two of the deals and Marcos was involved in the
institute’s end of it. He may have just been a dupe.”
    “ And
Goldman?”
    Franklin wobbled his hand in reply.
“Something’s not adding up on this list, here. In total
confidentiality you understand, my personal leaning at the moment
is that Goldman is definitely involved in some manner, Marcos may
be and there is someone else who’s the, shall we say, mastermind of
the entire scheme. There may be two because one will be on the real
estate end and the other in the institute. It’s looking very much
like that kind of thing.”
    Clint paused for a moment, an intense look on
his face, then he smirked and said, “Thank you, Dr. Franklin, for
your insights. You’ve brought something I’ve seen out of the
‘nagging at the fringes of thought’ phase.”
    “ So you
know for certain who did it!” Judi accused.
    “ Let’s
say it’s narrowed down to four, so it will be a matter of
separating appearances and facts. Two things have suddenly added
up. My problem is that number four is ‘somebody I haven’t
considered yet,’ so we keep on.
    “ Who’s
next?”
    Franklin grinned and stood. He saluted Clint
and took Judi’s hand as he left the room.
    “ One more
here. Marcos,” Judi said.
    “ So?
Let’s get it over with. Two words. ‘Looking’ and ‘list.’ It’s a
matter of finding what’s there by accident – or if it’s BY accident
or maybe BECAUSE of an accident.”
    She gave him the finger.
     
    “ Hello,
Dr. Marcos, please have a seat,” Clint said, as the slightly
“portly” man entered. “I only have a couple of
questions.”
    “ I didn’t
kill anybody!” Marcos defended. “My god! This is horrible! How do
these things happen?!”
    “ You have
a very solid alibi. You were with Dr. Franklin and Sylvia Goldman
when the murder was committed.”
    “ Yes!
Thank god for that! This is horrible! That poor girl! Do you think
it was a jealous boyfriend or something? Did it have to do with the
money problem here?”
    “ Definitely to do with the money problem here and the
investigation. She was shut up. She knew too much. Now she can’t
appear in court to testify, can she?”
    Marcos looked a bit relieved and nodded
    Judi didn’t miss that look anymore than Clint
did so couldn’t resist adding, “But the disks have everything she
knew on them and they’re as good, seeing she was killed to keep the
information from coming out.”
    Marcos looked like he would pass out.
“Disks?” he squeaked.
    “ Yeah,”
Clint replied. “She had back-ups at her place. Anyone who puts that
kind of stuff onto disks knows you have to keep back-ups in another
location. My only other question was about what you know about the
embezzling scheme, but I think you don’t