CHAPTER ONE Trm telephone on the desk rang shrilly and demandingly, once, twice, three, four times. There was no one in the office to answer it. On the fifth ring a young, woman appeared in a doorway which opened into another room. She was about twenty- two, tall and slim, and her fair straight hair was tied back simply behind her neck to fall in a long silky tail down her back. Over her skirt and blouse she was wearing a white hospital coat, indicating that she was either a doctor or a laboratory technician. Her thin face was not exactly pretty, but her skin was fine and white and her bones were elegantly chiselled. She would blossom into beauty as she grew older. On the sixth ring of the telephone bell she picked up the receiver. Glenc~ oss Regional Hospital Laboratory, she said in a cool briskly professional voice which held just the slightest suspicion of a Scottish accent. Helen Melrose speaking. Someone at the other end of the line cleared his throat and then a familiar voice, also softened by a Scottish accent, spoke. Blair here, Helen. I was hoping I d reach you first time and not the secretary. At the sound of the man s voice Helen s face changed its expression. It became wary and her large tawny-brown eyes narrowed. She bit the corner of her soft pink lower lip with the edge of
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