Maurice Gao was shaking his finger at people in the room. "Do any of youhave the slightest bit of honor? How do you go to sleep at night? Idon't know ...ow you can. You had an innocent person killed and now you'reabusing the person who uncovered your disgusting acts! You're notpolice, you're......"Gabrielle walked right up to Maurice as the Probationary Inspectorinsulted almost everyone in the room. "Maurice, please calm down. Iappreciate your coming to my defense, but I will handle it."Somebody. I passed through Springfield, Massachusetts and was nearing Northhampton when Hanratty got back to me."Sorry it took so long but we have a very big problem," Hanratty said. "Agent Fielding wanted to wait until we checked something out for him. He said that he called the hotel that Van Horn stayed in Tuesday night in Brodricksburg and the manager said that Van Horn hadn't checked out yet. Fielding ask me to go over to the hotel and see if there was anything there that might explain why Van Horn. I heard she had retired, so who else is on your ‘fuckit list?’” she asked with a laugh.“Let me think about that ... Hmmmm ... India Summer, Vicky Vette, Darla Crane, Taylor Wayne, Kristal Summer...”“I get it, older, busty with smallish hips, you certainly have a type, don’t you?” Sharon said.“You fit that type, don’t you Ms. Mitchel?”“I am retired, young man, let me think about it, OK?”“Here is my new email, that uses my porn name. Let me know. Just being around you makes me hard as steel,” I. " How?" You know how. You push your empathic scans into individuals. Do the same but push against my scan."I felt his push."Now shield yourself." How?" Visualize a mental shield around your mind. Picture a mirrored surface on the shield. The mirror supposedly helps by reflecting the intrusive scan."I pushed again and bounced off his shield. A deeper probe pierced his shield, though. "Make your shield stronger."Seconds later, as hard as I tried, I couldn't get past his reinforced mental.