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"No, you're not!" Staff Inspector Peter Wohl said.
"We'll have none of that!" Chief Inspector Augustus Wohl said.
"Don't be silly, Charley," Chief Inspector Dennis V. Coughlin said.
"I'll tell you what I'll do, just so we all stay friends," Larkin said, "I'll flip anybody else here with a representation allowance. Loser pays."
"What the hell is a 'representation allowance'?" Chief Wohl asked.
"Your tax dollars at work, Augie," Larkin said. "When high-ranking Secret Service people such as myself are forced to go out with the local Keystone Cops, we're supposed to keep them happy by grabbing the tab. They call it a 'representation allowance.'"
"Screw you, Charley," Coughlin said, laughing. "'Keystone Cops'!"
"Shut up, Denny. Let him pay," Chief Lowenstein said. "But order another round first."
There was laughter.
"Except for him," Peter Wohl said, pointing at Matt. "I want him sober when he translates that psychological profile into English."
"Sir, I can go out to the Schoolhouse right now, if you'd like."
"What I was thinking, Matt," Wohl said seriously, "was that the most efficient way to handle it would be for you to take it to your apartment and translate it there. Then O'Mara could run it by my dad's house, where we can have a look at it. Then Tom can take it out to the Schoolhouse, retype it, and duplicate it. By then Captain Pekach will have been able to set up distribution by Highway."
"Yes, sir," Matt said. "You don't want me to come by Chief Wohl's house?"
"I don't see any reason for you to come out there," Wohl said.
Am I being told I don't belong there, or is he giving me time off?
"Yes, sir," Matt said. "Thank you for lunch, Mr. Larkin."
"Thanks for the ride, Matt," Mr. Larkin said.
****
The only place there was room in Matt's apartment for a desk was in his bedroom, and even there he had to look long and hard for a desk small enough to fit. He'd finally found an unpainted "student's desk" in Sears Roebuck that fit, but wasn't quite sturdy enough for the standard IBM electric typewriter he had inherited from his father's office. Every time the carriage slammed back and forth for a new line, the desk shifted with a painful squeak.
Tom O'Mara made himself comfortable on Matt's bed, first by sitting on it, and then, when he became bored with that, by lying down on it and watching television with the sound turned off, so as not to disturb Matt's mental labor.
It took him the better part of an hour to translate first Amy's really incredibly bad handwriting, and then to reorganize what she had written, and then finally to incorporate what Wohl and Larkin had brought up in their meeting. Finally, he was satisfied that he had come up with what Wohl and Larkin wanted. He typed one more copy, pulled it from the typewriter, and handed it to O'Mara.
This individual is almost certainly:
Mentally unbalanced, believing that he has a special relationship with God. He may believe that God speaks to him directly.
IMPORTANTLY: He would not make a public announcement of this relationship.
Highly intelligent.
Well educated, most likely a college graduate, but almost certainly has some college education.
Well spoken, possessed of a good vocabulary.
An expert typist, with access to a current model IBM typewriter (one with a "type ball").
This individual is probably: A male Caucasian. Twenty-five to forty years old.
Asexual (that is, he's unmarried, and has no wife, or homo- or hetero-sexual partner or sex life).
