Disclaimer: in Part 1
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Gunny Galindez was at the phone...
- ...Yes, ma'am. JENNY LAKE.
-.......( voice at the phone)
- No, i don't know that, ma'am.
-.......
- Jazz. Her last job was a J-A-Z-Z album
-............
- Jason Miles. Jazz. Yes, that's it.
-............
- No idea. I told you before.
-..........
- I'll be very grateful
-............
- Yes, I'll tell him. Thank you.
- Gunny!
- Ma'am- he stood in attention
- At ease, Gunny. Just i want to ask you something
- Yes, ma'am.
- I have watched you talking to Commander Rabb. What did happen to him during my leave?
- He asked me to look for someone.
- Someone? Who? A Friend?
- Not exactly ma'am.
- So..?
Mac was burning in curiosity. Harm spent almost the whole day in court the day before and she hadn't got the chance to talk to him
- Ma'am you should ask to the Commander.
Mac gave him a funny look.
- Alright, Gunny- Mac started walking directly to Admiral's office leaving Gunnery Sargeant Victor Galindez with a guilty and worried expression on his face.
Mac wanted to know who was that "someone". A woman. It has to be a woman. A flash of jealousy ran her spine before she could stop it. There were a lot of things she wished to tell him but it was impossible.
Something had happened between them. Their old friendship had dissappeared and another feeling came up. She wondered if he could feel this strong attraction between them. While they were working together before he came back to his flying they were almost like brother – and - sister as she said to Jordie once.
She had feelings for Harm but she hid them so well that anyone at the office seemed notice it. However she still felt the same and she could swear that attraction was mutual.
- What am i going to do with you Harm?- she murmured to herself
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Gunny, Tiner, Bud and Harm where in Harm's office
- Sir, I tried to track her using all contacts i had but she vanished without trace. Her name wasn't in any Social Insurance List
- Tiner and I used Internet but her album was released in 1976.Nothing ever since
- And the address given by the recording company is old. She moved out several years ago
- I know and just let me thank you for your hard work
- But if you let us we will keep trying
Harm stayed quiet and then he said:
- No, I think you have done a lot for me. Perhaps if she is in the darkness it's because she wanted to be in that way. And as you have told me it's likely Jenny never met my father. I...
Harm was interrupted by a knock. It was Mac.
- Harm...Hey , are you having a "Guys' talk"?- she smiled – I arranged a meeting with P.O Russel Frazier in the McHalland case. We will have to meet him in Norfolk tomorrow at 1400 and i need the folder with the result from the lab in Quantico, please.
Harm gave a look at Tiner still in the office
- Do you need anything else, Sir?
- No, dimissed. Thanks.
She got close to his desk and what she saw called her attention
- Hey. How nice! Vinilus! Years since I used to heard them at Uncle Harold's . Ummmm let me see "Freedom Sessions" Miles- Lake. She was great. I didn't know you like Classic Jazz.
- Neither did I.I bought them just because...
- Because...?
- Well, I wanted to know about her. She knew my father
Mac looked at him suspicious feeling there was something else
- Have you contacted her?
- No. The company which edited her job was absorbed by Sony.I could contact one of the administrative assistants and she gave me an address but Jenny Lake didn't live there anymore. And her name isn't in any Social Insurance Database.
- Well, after she got married she changed her surname.
- How do you know that?
- Library of the Congress, Commander. There is a whole sector dedicated to Bob Hope and his crew, do you remember?- Mac couldn't resist teasing him - Nahhh....I read an article about her in Cosmopolitan last year
- What is her name now?
- Masterson. Her husband is Michael Masterson that famous bass player, director of Montreal Jazz Festival
Harm didn't say anything else. He looked at Bud and inmediately he stood up and said
- I'll check it out, Sir
- Thanks, Bud
- Do you feel ok, Harm?
- Yes, I'm fine.
- Do you want to talk?
- No right now. If i find her i'll let you know
Mac noticed he was in distress but she couldn't do anything if he didn't want to talk
- Here is my folder
- I'll see you by lunch?
- No, I'm gonna be in court all day
- Well, then I'll see you tomorrow
- See ya
Mac felt downcasted. Harm didn't seem to trust in her anymore and she was really sorry about that.
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Harm drove his car to the address Bud has got:7019,Wellington Road, Mc Lean Virginia.
Nice neibourghood- he thought. Very stylysh and sophisticated old houses. Most of them belonged to Capitol Hill workers. Harm parked his car and then he saw an old lady seated in the garden Harm walked towards her.
- Good afternoon, Ma'am. I'm Commander Harmon Rabb
They shaked hands.
- Good afternoon, Commander and nice to meet you. I'm Jeanine Calloway. Please have a seat
Harm did it. The old lady noticed Harm hesitated and she asked him
- How can i help you?
- I'm looking for a woman.She is a singer. Her name is Jenny Lake. She
belonged to Bob Hope's crew
Jeanine Calloway looked at the handsome officer very deeply and then she said:
- I guess you have come to the right place but i'm afraid it's too late. She died five years ago...