I've got to set these people straight after what has just gone down, he thought. We're calling her next and they have to be warned not to pursue red herrings.
Chapter 16
After the formalities of swearing in were completed, the 'suspect' evaluations were identified as being contained in packets called exhibit 3 and 4 by the chair and Diana was asked if she wrote them.
Following her denial, Henry asked her why 'they' would suggest that she had. She answered that she had no idea. Damn her, thought Henry. She won't rise to the bait.
Next, the chair turned to exhibit 5, which he identified as some of the standards used by the document examiners. Apparently, he had heard and taken note when Trenchant had made a point of the fact that the so-called standards were copies.
"One is an original, here on top—the rest are copies." Then he continued, obliquely, asking, "have you seen these before?"
"Since these exhibits were passed around and discussed yesterday," Trenchant answered, "I have seen something that appears like this.
"If you are asking if I wrote them, the answer is that I couldn't say. The one original in the packet looks like my signature but there is no date on it. I don't know when it was written and do not recall writing it.
"These others show dates of a long time ago. We're in the late eighties now and these are dated '61, '69...."