Decency (55 page)

Abe knocked and stuck his head in. “Need any help?”

“Hey, Abe, come on in.”

“Kelly, are you sure we can’t change your mind?”

“I’m just ready for something different. Who knows, you might feel the same way soon.”

“Anything is possible…as your case demonstrated.”

Abe hesitated. “Kelly, a lawyer’s question. You had authority to file your motion
in camera
, why did you file it in on the open record?”

…Abe, you can be a little obtuse at times…

“You were helpful there. Remember, you said, ‘There are good people at NSA’?”

“Vaguely.”

“That caused me to think Fitzgerald could have been fooling them. So I trusted that someone in authority at NSA didn’t know he could have played detective at the death scene and the rest of it. That unraveled it. I put it all out in the open to be sure good people over there, whoever they were, wherever they were, could use it to do something.”

“To say it worked would be an understatement. Well, I’m not going to say ‘good-bye’ because we’ll be in touch. But I will miss you around here.”

“Thanks, Abe. I will keep in touch.”

Abe straightened his shoulders and seemed to want to say something but sauntered away leaving it unsaid.

Bonnie stared, wide-eyed.

“Kelly, what you just did may be the kindest thing I ever witnessed.”

“No, just simple decency.”

Tom, I miss you.

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