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force.”
    Alice felt a little pride in her voice as she asked. “If the boy is in there, do you want me to talk to him so that Joe can get into his dreams tonight?”
    “We’ll have to see how Homeland wants to handle it, they might want us to back off and they’ll take it from here.”
    “That’s not fair,” Alice said innocently, “it’s your collar; you’ve done all the leg work.”
    Burrows smiled at Alice’s attempt to talk cop talk. “That’s how it works sometimes, we do all the work finding the guy then someone else gets all the glory.”
    Campbell got back in the car. “Okay, they’ve put a trace on his phone and it’s in this vicinity, so this is how they want it done...”
    “When you say “they”, do you mean Frank Brubaker?” The question had left Alice’s lips before she had had the chance to think about it. “Sorry, go on.”
    “We are helping Homeland on this case, so Frank Brubaker knows everything that’s going on.” He turned back to Burrows and went on. “They want us to go in there as soon as they’ve got a team covering all exits.” He looked back at Alice. “They do not want us to arrest him, so we are not going to show that we recognize him, we are just going to hopefully spook him into making phone calls and if he leaves the building, he’ll be followed.” He paused for Alice to digest the information, and then went on. “They hope to find out where they’ve taken the two suspects by tracing his phone calls. But they also want you to try and work your thing with that badge, and have Joe to get into his dreams tonight. All we gotta do now is wait until everyone is in place.”
    They waited an agonizingly long thirty minutes before they received the go-ahead. Alice was nervous; she had hoped Joe would have contacted her by now.
    “Here we go,” Campbell said, as he started the car up and drove it about twenty yards down the road, parking across the road from Tommy’s Bar. “Now remember, if he does a runner, let him go. We just want to scare him and let him know that the FBI is looking for him.”
    They all got out of the car and Campbell hoped Alice wouldn’t bungle the whole operation; she looked really shaken.
    “Mrs. Timberlake,” he said to her, “just try to relax. Be you and you’ll be fine. Here’s the sketch so you can try to make contact with the boy.”
    He showed her the picture and Alice stared at it carefully, then nodded. “I’ve got it.”
    “Right, here we go.”
    Campbell led the way with Alice right behind him and Burrows bringing up the rear. There was a great, long bar inside with stools lined up along the front. There was only one guy sitting on a stool talking to the bartender. There were two other men playing chess at a table near the front window; they both looked up at the three of them briefly and went back to their game. At the far end of the room, there were two pool tables with six youngsters noisily playing pool.
    The bartender walked up to the three of them and said rather rudely, “Can I help you, officer?”
    Alice was surprised that he had sniffed them out as Law enforcement. Campbell and Burrows didn’t seem surprised and Campbell flashed his badge. “FBI, Special Agent Campbell.”
    He said it loud enough for everyone to hear and without introducing Burrows or Alice, he put his badge away and showed the bartender the sketch. “Have you seen this boy around here?”
    The bartender hardly took a glance at the photo. “No, never seen the lad before.”
    “Have any of you gentlemen seen this boy hanging around here?” Campbell asked, raising the sketch and walking over to the two men playing chess. They both said “No”.
    Burrows, who had been studying the pool table at the far end, suddenly whispered in Alice’s ear. “That looks like our boy playing pool over there. I’ll cover here while you go back there with Agent Campbell.”
    Alice pulled the old army badge out of her pocket and started to roll it through