She was a light sleeper and was known to wake easy to catch some of the girls as they came in after hours.The one thing in my favor was that I knew sh... and the Assistant Dean had a romp in her room tonight so I was hoping she was worn our from their encounter and would sleep through my invasion of her room. I still planned to take extra precautions. I was so close to completing my task. The window was open and I hesitated just a moment before I swung one leg over the sill. I entered as quietly. A spent hypodermic lay in the rubbish from the upended waste basket. A heap of tissues soaked in blood suggested that someone hadn't had it too easy. I liked to think it was whoever had snatched her. The core of a roll of duck tape under the chair suggested that in spite of that they'd got their own way. Her handbag had been upended on the bed, its contents spread around.I phoned Harry. "I need some help, I said as calmly as I could. "Can you get over here?"To say that Harry wasn't happy when. Amanda knew thatoffice all too well. She had been in there countless times over the lastcouple years and was almost numb to the fact that she was called in yetagain. What did he do this time? Steal, start a fight, touch a girlinappropriately or make a rude comment? The possibilities were endless!Jessie was on the same fast track as his father and at this rate he wasgoing to end up in jail or dead...those were the options. His father wasspending the last 5 years of his 15 years sentence for. "Because he had the reputation as a hard and tireless worker, he usually had a paying job of one sort or another while others starved or were looking desperately for anything the permitted them to see one more day's pay. His grinning, punctuated by a checkerboard smile of nicotine stained yellow and off white teeth, was a welcome sight on any road construction job where the bosses knew him. "Shit, that old Lee Roy is the only white man I ever saw who worked from can to can't and still had.