The Secret Patient by Vaughan W. Smith

Author:Vaughan W. Smith [Smith, Vaughan W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780987469458
Publisher: Fair Folio
Published: 2016-03-21T23:00:00+00:00

17

An Important Call

Elizabeth rushed out of the hospital, hoping to get to work as soon as possible. She hadn’t progressed her museum story, even though she had done the interview in the morning. She needed some progress to show, otherwise there would be trouble.

She made it into the office and headed straight to her desk. There were a lot of ideas running through her head from the day, but she focused on what was important. First she wrote down detailed notes and a plan of action for the Museum Heist. Even in a normal situation that would be interesting. In fact there was so much going on she probably couldn’t give it the full attention that it deserved.

Once she was happy that she had made sufficient progress on that story she switched over to Nathan’s disappearance. She had to be careful what she noted down for this one. Obviously she had a lot more information than she could acknowledge. So she decided to stick to the basic stuff and noted down her interview with Nathan’s mother and her call to his employer. Charles, Nathan’s boss, was one she would leave out for now. If she did manage to contact him, she wouldn’t be able to explain how she got his number.

As Elizabeth finished up her notes, her phone started ringing.

“Hello, Elizabeth speaking,” she said, answering it as soon as possible.

“Hello Elizabeth, I’m calling you on behalf of Lucy Morgan.”

“Great, thanks for getting in touch.”

“No problem. I have a message to pass on. She confirmed that Dr Malberg is the one who directed her treatment.”

“That’s all I needed. Thank you so much.”

“There’s more. You are not to mention Lucy in any context relating to this matter.”

“Sure, I understand. Thank you.”

“Glad you understand. Goodbye.”

“Bye,” Elizabeth said and hung up. That was an intriguing call. She had the confirmation she needed. Doctor Malberg was her next target for investigation. She decided to see what she could find at home and draw up a plan for getting in touch with him. She had the feeling that she might need some leverage before she did so. If they had outright denied any program of treatment to Dean, then they may be quite careful about admitting to her as well. And she couldn’t use Lucy as a source.

Elizabeth squared off her notes, and prepared to leave the office.

“How’s my museum story going?” George asked.

“Well I met with the Director of Egyptian Antiquities this morning. Very cagey fellow, he only agreed to meet because he wanted to get his hands on the tip we received about the theft.”

“Why is that?”

“He thinks there’s no value in the item on the black market, and that none of his staff would have told us about it.”

“So he thinks the thief gave us the tip to show off?”

“Exactly.”

“Did you hand it over?”

“Yeah, I just made sure I got a copy. It’s of no further use to us, and it might buy us some cooperation. It all seems very suspicious though.”

“Yeah, normally they report these things to the police.

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