The Two Dog Solution by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.

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Dilya was sure that the Secret Service Ink Library would fascinate Jimmy. Their shelves held sixteen thousand samples of ink, markers, printer toner, and everything else used for writing over most of the last hundred years. Handling over five hundred cases a year, the librarians here investigated everything from counterfeit money to signatures forged with the wrong kind of ink. They’d helped crack cases like the DC Sniper in 2002 by the ink he left on the Tarot cards he used to claim each kill.

She and Jimmy then visited the US Mint, National Postal Museum, and the US Forest Service. The EPA was a little creepy. The number of Superfund sites in desperate need of clean up from toxic dumping or manufacturing was staggering.

She persevered and visited every special librarian she could think of. There were a ton of academic and corporate ones as well. They oversaw special collections from museums to the White House, wrote the indexes at the backs of books, and tracked everything from the medals issued to soldiers from every war all the way back to the Revolution to the progress of genetics research.

Dilya timed it so that they were back at the White House at noon to pick up her car. The CIA headquarters lay ten miles away in Langley, Virginia. Miss Watson had said to go there last.

She didn’t think it was necessary as someone had picked up their trail while talking to the head librarian for the Marine Corps Band. He was stationed at the Marine Barracks in Southeast DC. He knew nothing of Miss Watson and had never been to the White House except for performances, but was so incredibly excited to show them through his the band’s history and their music collection that she hadn’t had the heart to brush him off.

The tail was felt not seen, but Miss Watson had trained her too well to mistrust that instinct. She considered alerting Jimmy. It might be safer, but she didn’t want to spook their shadow as it would defeat what she guessed was the purpose of the entire morning.

Her exhaustion ran core deep. Not just because she’d slept three hours and then spent the next six visiting libraries all over DC. It was because Jimmy had barely said a word in the last three hours.

She’d tried talking to him about dog training, but not even that engaged him. When she suggested he could wait in her room, he’d roused himself enough to refuse. It was just as well, she wasn’t sure how security would feel about him being there alone.

The drive out to the CIA campus turned painfully silent.

The dogs felt it too. Shelties were a very active breed. They wouldn’t play as long as a Golden Retriever, nor were they as non-stop hyper as a Malinois, but they never ever drooped. Zackie and Merle curled up on opposite sides of the back seat for the drive.

The CIA’s library and museum was no more public than many of the ones she’d been to today, but again her White House, Yankee White clearance opened even these doors.

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