The Gentlemen's Hour

104

Boone goes back to Schering’s office at 10:00 p.m.

Parks the van down the road and walks up to the office complex. The lock is easy—it only takes him a couple of minutes to get in.

He turns the little flashlight on, sticks it in his mouth, and hits Schering’s desk. The computer is on “sleep,” and, to Boone’s relief, Schering was still logged on. Boone double clicks on an icon marked “Billings” and is soon scrolling through Schering’s recent time records. Boone sticks a thumbdrive in the port in back of the hard drive, drags and clicks, then removes the thumb, peeks out the window, and goes out the door.

Thanks to technology, he thinks, rifling records is so much easier than it used to be.