10 To say that a gray pall had settled over the offices of Meyers, Dade & Schultz would be an understatement. Other than a skeleton crew, the office was officially closed. The litigation department had various court deadlines to meet and David didn’t see the sense in asking for continuances only to have time crunches later on. He had hoped for some semblance of normality, but silence enveloped the hallways broken only by the ding of the elevator doors opening and closing and a few whispered conversations. I arrived at quarter to nine. After settling in, I headed down the hallway to see what was going on in the other offices. Yellow tape was stretched across Jack’s office door. Nora Layton was nowhere to be seen. Roger was rifling through papers laid out on his credenza, and Dani was typi

