Doctor Mary Allen had been working all day, and her assistant, God bless him, had matched her zeal and they had been at it for more than six hours nonstop. She checked the time and saw that it was twenty minutes past five, and she saw that her assistant was still hard at work. She knew that feeling, this was his baby, and he would run himself into the ground to make sure everything came outright. That was how it had been for her when she had her first breakthrough before she was tapped up by the Feds. She was tired and had not had anything to eat all day, except the burger that her assistant had gotten her during lunch hour. So she began packing up and hoped Agent Derringer would give her more time to finish up before he came calling. She walked up to her assistant and told him, "Hey Mark,

