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Constable Robin Hanks stifled a yawn as he slouched a little lower on the chair he occupied outside the hospital room which held Julia Harris and Brian Jacobs. He had an easy assignment that was putting him to sleep, but he was startled into full wakefulness by a sudden burst of music.
He shot to his feet as though scalded, and looked around a little wildly for the source of the music. It took him a moment to realise that the music was coming from the room he had been ordered to guard. Pushing open the door he entered the room. It was dark, the only illumination came from the corridor behind him, and the machines monitoring the two patients, but Hanks had no difficulty figuring out where the music was coming from; it’s source was a plastic bag on a chair in the corner of the room. The
