Chapter 19

“Hell, yes.” Rory got to his feet, pulling Lou up then into a tight embrace. “I don’t think I have to keep going after Beth. Not when we have what, I suspect, she was looking for. I wonder…”

“No wondering. No talking about the case. Not until tomorrow,” Lou ordered. He picked up the memory card, stuck it in his pocket, then they left. 7

After too little sleep, Lou arrived at the precinct first thing Saturday morning, even though he wasn’t due in until two. He wanted to let Harber know about the memory card Rory had found in Seaver’s apartment as soon as possible, before passing it on to the department’s experts to go over.

Harber was not happy when Lou told him about it. “With no search warrant…”

“Rory’s not a cop,” Lou pointed out. “And, so far, we have no reason to geta warrant.”

“If our people find anything useful on the card, we can’t use it, since there’s no chain of evidence to document where it was found.”