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that he would now try to harm his son. But the facts of the past
seemed to have no bearing on the facts of the present. Quinn
was deeply disillusioned. He had always imagined that the
key to good detective work was a close observation of details.
The more accurate the scrutinythe more successful the results.
The implication was that human behavior could be under-
stoodthat beneath the in?nite facade of gesturesticsand si-
lencesthere was ?nally a coherencean ordera source of
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motivation. But after struggling to take in all these surface ef-
fectsQuinn felt no closer to Stillman than when he ?rst started
following him. He had lived Stillman’s lifewalked at his pace
seen what he had seenand the only thing he felt now was the
man’s impenetrability. Instead of narrowing the distance that
lay between him and Stillmanhe had seen the old man slip
away from himeven as he remained before his eyes.
For no particular reason that he was aware ofQuinn turned
to a clean page of the red notebook and sketched a little map of
the area Stillman had wandered in.
Thenlooking carefully through his noteshe began to trace
with his pen the movements Stillman had made on a single
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