"Oh," he cooed when Al called him to complain, "I must have
misunderstood. I thought you wanted to get started before the final ruling."
Al was outclassed and he knew it. Apologetically, he called the plaintiff
and drew her the financial picture. An appeal to the judge for permission
to delay discovery was ignored--Murrain had carefully picked his time.
It was one of the last orders the judge signed before departing
on his vacation.
That's all she wrote, Diana acknowledged In debt and unemployed,
she dropped her illegal-termination suit against Belmont University.
AFTERGLOW
Chapter 40
Deep within the bowels of the Belmont library building,
the university archivist, Igor O'Toole, had been keeping an
informal running tally of events relating to the SmurFF Affair.
He had gleaned the information from his friend, Diana, confirmed
gossip, media sources, university documents and private sources
which he knew to be reliable and would not reveal. He had,
over the past two years, posted it in a scrapbook.
His interest had been whetted when the story first broke.
Everyone repeating it on campus was incredulous.
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