I am completely unprepared for what takes place Saturday evening. Lieutenant Hanson appears at the window in the door to the interview room and holds up the V diary so I can see it. Then he opens it to a page in the middle and draws from his shirt pocket a torn sheet of paper, which has been pieced together with Scotch tape, and places the paper next to the page in the diary. It is the letter of apology that I wrote to Elizabeth! The items disappear from the window and Hanson walks into the room, no longer holding anything. He says, “Tell me if you think the two documents you just saw are in the same handwriting,” He has the diary! Damnation! Someone must have found the key to the storage locker. Worse, the lieutenant also possesses the note of apology! Laurence must have told him about

