So on Thursday of that week I went to the house after work and went through the long and lengthy process of opening it up.The power was still on to ke...p the alarm active so I didn't have to fumble around in the dark. I made sure the halls were free of obstructions and I even located an old candelabra that was used as a room prop and placed it in the Dracula room. After work on Friday I ran to the house and disabled all the alarm.I then filled the candelabra with some recently purchased tall. I know that the courier we came on left shortly after Major MacRoy finished giving the General's report, so I can't use that to return. I was giving my trainee a tour of the departments and telling her a little about previous investigations, so she'd know some things to look for."The man looked grim. "And will do you that with my department?" Standards? I could, but I don't remember any previous issues with your department. I won't say it has a wonderful reputation, but when there have been. "But you wouldn't know about that sub, would you?"His composure returned. It was a struggle but he managed.I left.Noumea, on Grand Terre Island is the Territorial Capital of New Caledonia. Highly French, the population is some twenty thousand and very cosmopolitan.The people are familiar with and at ease with many different cultures. European, Polynesian, Indonesian and Indochinese, as well as many Melanesian, Ni-Vanuatu and local Kanaks, a polyglot of humanity.Because of the Tack and Turn we. It was a long, mostly boring drive. I wanted to do the whole thing in one day, but I needed to keep fairly close to the speed limit. Well, to the speed of traffic, speed limits these days are a joke on most roads and especially Interstates.A few miles short of Richmond I stopped at a shopping mall and picked up a new phone. My cell was the last thing linking me to John Joseph Heyward, and I needed to dump it. Thanks to Spook, Jackson Edward Carstairs had spotless credit and they were happy to.