Chapter 42An officer still carried the blue blouse Ka'imi found. It was laid on the refrigerator door to be photographed as well. “Who's got Bao's button?”
Det. Lio pulled the button in the evidence bag out of his shirt pocket and laid it beside the buttons on the front of the old shirt. He laid Bao's button along side. Clearly, the button in the bag matched the ones remaining on the old rumpled sailor shirt, as did Bao's button.
The rest of the expensive looking jewelry wasn't checked for value, though more than a dozen pieces were included in the lot. The detective gently gathered them again and placed them back into the box, into which he also dropped the button in the bag and Bao's button, and stuffed in Sara's two blouses and the boys' shirt.
“That must have been Maleko's mother's
