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<blockquote data-quote="Job" data-source="post: 2714262" data-attributes="member: 37196"><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Another question for Paco...</span></p><p>[sblock]Upon hearing Paco's words, Detective Hansen stood and walked to the table, mouth slightly open, staring at Paco. After a few seconds, he said, <span style="color: Yellow">"Mr. Guerini, I believe that Lawrence knew something, but I don't know exactly what it means and I don't know where it came from. In his jacket we found..."</span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow"></span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">"J.J.!"</span>, interrupted Supervisor Mills, stepping directly in front of the Detective. <span style="color: Yellow"> "What are you doing? We can't yet divulge any..."</span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow"></span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">"Yes, John,"</span> said the Detective in a raised voice, coldly staring at the policeman, <span style="color: Yellow">"I absolutely can if I think that it will help this case! And <strong>DAMN</strong> it, we're getting nowhere right now!" </span> </p><p></p><p>The two men stared at each other for a few long moments, then Detective Hansen finally turned, looked at Paco, and began speaking again in a much lower and calmer voice. <span style="color: Yellow"> "In Lawrence's jacket we found a piece of paper. This one,"</span> he said as he gingerly retrieved a folded note from his jacket pocket. He carefully unfolded the paper and looked at it, saying <span style="color: yellow">"Scrawled on the paper is this strange, incomplete poem:" </span> </p><p><span style="color: cyan"></span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">"Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly </span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">Of the black cone amid the polar waste;</span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">Pushing above the ice-sheet lone and drearly,</span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">By storm-crazed aeons battered and defaced.</span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">Hither no living earth-shapes take their courses,</span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">And only pale auroras and faint suns</span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">Glow on that pitted rock, whose primal sources</span></p><p><span style="color: cyan">Are guessed at dimly by the..."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">"And it just ends there. The writer's shaky handwriting trails off, never to finish the verse," </span> said the Detective as he returned his gaze back up into Paco's eyes. <span style="color: Yellow">"Is there anything in that writing that means anything at all to you, Mr. Guerini? If so, please tell me."</span>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Job, post: 2714262, member: 37196"] [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Another question for Paco...[/COLOR] [sblock]Upon hearing Paco's words, Detective Hansen stood and walked to the table, mouth slightly open, staring at Paco. After a few seconds, he said, [COLOR=Yellow]"Mr. Guerini, I believe that Lawrence knew something, but I don't know exactly what it means and I don't know where it came from. In his jacket we found..." "J.J.!"[/COLOR], interrupted Supervisor Mills, stepping directly in front of the Detective. [COLOR=Yellow] "What are you doing? We can't yet divulge any..." "Yes, John,"[/COLOR] said the Detective in a raised voice, coldly staring at the policeman, [COLOR=Yellow]"I absolutely can if I think that it will help this case! And [B]DAMN[/B] it, we're getting nowhere right now!" [/COLOR] The two men stared at each other for a few long moments, then Detective Hansen finally turned, looked at Paco, and began speaking again in a much lower and calmer voice. [COLOR=Yellow] "In Lawrence's jacket we found a piece of paper. This one,"[/color] he said as he gingerly retrieved a folded note from his jacket pocket. He carefully unfolded the paper and looked at it, saying [color=yellow]"Scrawled on the paper is this strange, incomplete poem:" [/COLOR] [COLOR=cyan] "Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly Of the black cone amid the polar waste; Pushing above the ice-sheet lone and drearly, By storm-crazed aeons battered and defaced. Hither no living earth-shapes take their courses, And only pale auroras and faint suns Glow on that pitted rock, whose primal sources Are guessed at dimly by the..."[/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow]"And it just ends there. The writer's shaky handwriting trails off, never to finish the verse," [/COLOR] said the Detective as he returned his gaze back up into Paco's eyes. [COLOR=Yellow]"Is there anything in that writing that means anything at all to you, Mr. Guerini? If so, please tell me."[/COLOR][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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