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that there might be a Vulke assassin hiding in the closet waiting for you.”
    Evelyn pictured herself returning to her apartment without realizing that the Vulke had her key, and being horribly murdered. She shivered. “Thanks for the imagery, Roberto.”
    “What?”
    “Forget it, American humor.”
    Roberto cleared his throat. “Ah, well, I will contact you via cell phone tomorrow. Please have them with you. I thought…that something untoward had happened.”
    “Sorry. We will.”
    “Very good. Until tomorrow then.”
    “Goodbye, Roberto.”
    Evelyn hung up the phone and relayed the conversation to David and Kim while she hunted for a pen to label the hair envelopes.
    Kim headed towards the bedroom. “I think I’m going to go lie down for a little while.”
    Evelyn was too keyed up from the meeting and conversation with Roberto to nap, so she paced around the suite for a few minutes then grabbed a pad of stationary and scribbled out some thoughts she’d been having about the next steps in her research.
    David sat down on the couch for a spell then fidgeted and jumped up again. “I think I’ll go downstairs and see if the cell phones are there yet.”
     Evelyn finished putting down her thoughts and set the notepad aside. “Okay.”
    When David had gone, Evelyn wandered over to the windowed side of the suite’s living-room and pulled back one of the heavy blinds. It was a beautiful day outside; she really wanted to open up the window coverings and let the sunlight spill into the room. Unfortunately, that wouldn’t be the best of plans. The Vulke probably didn’t know that she was there, but that was still no reason to present herself in front of a wall of glass, in a place the Vulke knew to be the Wahya stronghold.
    David returned with a smallish cardboard box and used his room key to rip open the tape on the package. Inside were three shiny new cell phones with chargers and a note from Roberto with a telephone number on which to contact him. Evelyn picked up one of the identical black phones and rotated it around in her hands.
    “I guess it doesn’t matter much if we get our phones confused at this point.”
    David selected another phone. “I guess not.”
    She turned on her phone and scanned through some features. The phone had three numbers already entered in: one was a number that Roberto had given them to contact him, and Evelyn suspected the other two were for the sister burner phones. She called the first mystery number and the phone in David’s hands rang. He glanced up at her and nodded as she ended the call and entered in David’s name with that number and then Kim’s with the other number. The phone had texting and internet capabilities, but was a brand that Evelyn had never heard of before. She took a deep breath, dialed a number, and retreated to the far corner of the room.
    “Country Acre Vet Clinic, this is Wendy speaking, how may I help you?” a cheerful voice answered.
    “Hi Wendy, it’s Dr. Eisenhart.”
    “Dr. Eisenhart! Are you okay.? We were beginning to get worried. Dr. Alverez has been trying to reach you.”
    Evelyn sighed. “I’m sorry Wendy, yeah I’m okay, just some emergency family stuff going on. I’m sorry I didn’t call sooner. I lost my cell phone and we’ve been in the car driving a lot. Is he around?”
    “Yeah, I’ll get him for you.”
    “Wait, Wendy.”
    “Yeah, Doc?”
    “I just wanted to let you know that it’s been really great working with you, and I’m going to miss you.”
    “You’re leaving the clinic?”
    “Yeah, I’m sorry, but like I said, I’ve got a lot of personal stuff going on right now and I’m not sure when it will all be sorted out. Dr. Alverez and I talked about it before, and I just can’t keep leaving him in a lurch.”
    “Sure, well I’m really gonna miss you too. Aren’t you coming back at all?”
    “No, sorry, I just can’t right now, but I’ll come visit when…when I can. Tell everyone that I’m going to miss