Chapter 10: Tension
When Monday finally arrived, Alan was totally exhausted. He called in sick at the office and drove nervously to the address Officer Wilson had given him. He was fifteen minutes early. He was taken to a room by a gruff looking desk sergeant where four other men were already seated. Alan nodded to them as he went in and sat down. Another man arrived shortly after he did. He thought it might be the man who had driven into the park just as Alan was leaving on the day of his arrest, but he wasn’t sure. All the men seemed to reflect his mood: fear and dejection.
After a while, one by one, the men were taken into another room where they were fingerprinted and a Polaroid photo was taken. Then they were loaded into a station wagon. Alan sat in the back seat facing the rear wi
