Danny nodded.Shaun resumed climbing the stairs.The three watching the door had their guns out – a .38, a .45, and a 9mm.Danny fought to maintain his...trigger discipline.“Gentlemen...”The three men turned, not fully bringing their weapons up, to be faced with Shaun’s and Danny’s weapons trained on them.“I don’t know what the hell you think you’re doing up here,” Danny said, “but I’m a member of hotel security, and I need you gentlemen to put your weapons on the floor, and vacate the premises. There was another assistant present, a stoutish middle aged woman behind the other counter. She moved cautiously round it and joined the others.The gunman's command had been loud enough to be heard in the workshop at the back of the store. The craftsman there did not hesitate. He hit the panic button for the police. That did not set off the alarm but it sent armed police racing to the shop. The watchkeeper at the police station also alerted officers on foot patrol in the city who made their way. .. but I wasn’t bored.The quality and variety of stone that I was pulling up off the bottom ... yellow and orange quartzite boulders the size of my torso were undermined by the suction nozzle of the six inch Keene and rolled into the cavity ... until I realized that I could rig a crane and remove them. And learning how to operate the crane I find and restore to running condition would keep the doldrums away.I didn’t need much ... enough reach to keep whatever vehicle it was mounted on far. The clothes in the trunk probably belonged to one of her girlfriends or something.The next day, as I dressed for work I saw the diskette I used when I made the copies of those funny encrypted files on Kim’s computer. I almost dropped it in the trash, then decided to take a peek anyway. I knew she wouldn’t be fooling around on me, but I thought there might be something kind of interesting in the files anyway.When I got to work I dropped the disk in my desk drawer and started untangling problems.