True Heiress Never Lies! novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Girl in the Next Bunk
The inspector walked past the night officer.
He came down into the basement with a flashlight and stood in the doorway of the cold room.
He looked at the drain.
He looked at the tallies on the wall.
He looked at my father, sitting on the floor in his good suit.
"I should have looked in June," he said.
It was the first adult I had ever heard say it.
He took photographs for twenty minutes, and then he locked the room with a state seal.
He put the director's name on a form and told her not to leave the building.
My father gave him the phone with the recording on it and signed whatever was put in front of him, reading every word.
I kept the cardboard.
"I will want it," the inspector said. "A copy is enough tonight."
"Tomorrow," I said. "I'll bring the original myself."
He looked at the Bible's backing, and at my face, and he nodded.
It was seven when we got back in the car.
"Where now?" my father asked.
"Mansfield. Main Street. There's a diner called the Silver Spoon."
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