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.Page 85ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlThat came about five minutes later.It came about two minutes after Chee hadturned his patrol car westward toward Moenkopi and Tuba City.Which was toobad, because it meant he had to stop and turn around."Two calls," Shirley said."One says call Johnson, Drug Enforcement Agency,and there's this number in Flagstaff." She gave him the number."And the othersays please call Miss Pauling at the Hopi motel.""Thanks, Shirley," Chee said."Ten-four," said Shirley.The man at the desk of the Hopi Cultural Center motel rang Miss Pauling'stelephone five times and declared that she wasn't in.Chee checked the moteldining room.She was sitting at a corner table, a cup of coffee in front ofher, immersed in a Phoenix Gazette."You left a call for me," Chee said."Did Gaines come back?""Yes," Miss Pauling said."Sit down.Do you know how to tap a telephone?" Shelooked intense, excited."Tap a telephone?" Chee sat down."What's going on?""There was a message for Gaines," Miss Pauling said."Someone called and leftit.They'd call back at four, and if he wanted me to make an arrangement, tobe in his room to take the call.""The clerk showed you the message?""Sure," she said."He checked us in together, and we got adjoining rooms.Butwe don't have much time." She glanced at her watch."Less than half an hour.Can we get the telephone tapped?""Miss Pauling," Chee said."This is Second Mesa, Arizona.I don't know how totap a telephone.""I think it's easy," she said."It looks easy on television," Chee said."But you have to have some sort ofequipment.And you have to know how.""You could call somebody?""Not and get a telephone tapped in anything less than about three days," Cheesaid."In the Navajo Police, it's out of our line of work.If you call the fbiin Phoenix, they'd know how, but they'd have to get a court order." And then,Chee thought, there's Johnson of the dea, who wouldn't worry about a courtorder, and would probably have the equipment in his hip pocket.He wonderedwhy Johnson wanted him to call.Whatever, it was a call he didn't intend tomake.Miss Pauling looked stricken.She worried her lower lip with her teeth."How about just listening at the wall?" Chee asked."Where do they put thetelephones? Could you hear from one room to the next?"Miss Pauling thought about it."I doubt it," she said."Not even if he talkedloud."Page 86ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlChee glanced at his watch.It was 3:33 p.m.In twenty-seven minutes, more orless, Ironfingers would be calling Ben Gaines, making arrangements to tradetwo aluminum suitcases full of cocaine for.for what? Probably for a hugeamount of money.Whatever he exchanged it for, Musket would have to name atime and a place.Chee wished fervently that he had the clips and theearphones, or whatever it took to eavesdrop on a telephone call."Could we tell the guy at the switchboard that when the call came, Gaineswould be in your room? Have him put it through your telephone?""Wouldn't work," Miss Pauling said.Chee had seen it wouldn't work as soon as he'd said it."Not unless I couldimitate Gaines's voice."Miss Pauling shook her head."You couldn't," she said."I guess not," Chee said.He thought."What are you thinking about? Anything helpful?""No," Chee said."I was thinking it would be good if we could get in the backof that telephone switchboard and somehow do some splicing with the wires." Heshrugged, dismissing the thought."No," Miss Pauling said."I think it's a GTE board.It takes tools."Chee looked at her, surprised."GTE board?""I think so.It looked like the one we had at the high school.""You know something about switchboards?""I used to operate one.For about a year.Along with filing, a lot of otherthings.""You could operate this one?""Anybody can operate a switchboard," she said."If you're smart enough todress yourself." She laughed."It's certainly not skilled labor.Three minutesof instructions and." She let it trail off [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]