FULL CIRCLE
Chapter 22
Frank meticouisly swabbed everything in the room that he suspected held traces of the infectious agent. After which he carefully bagged and labeled the swabs before stepping out of the room. And as it turned out, he'd gotten there just in time.
Ducking into a side corridor, Frank watched several men in white coveralls wheeling a cart of cleaning equipment toward Mrs. Randolph's room. Somehow their appearance struck him as more than just an ordinary cleaning crew. He had the feeling that if he were to return later, he'd see that it would have been subjected to the same sanitizing procedures as the other rooms. Hopefully this time he would have collected some trace.
Pulling out his cell phone, he called Miles to give the younger man a report on what he'd found in the patient's room.
"Dr. McCabe," Miles said, answering his phone when it rang.
"I think I just got to Mrs. Randolph's room just in time. The place was untouched yet so I hope I found something. I'm off to the lab to run the samples now. Maybe by in the morning we'll know what we're dealing with," Frank told him.
"I hope so," Miles said. He pushed his hair back wearily. "So far everything I'm trying is having no effect."
"If there's an answer out there somewhere, we'll find it," Frank reassured him. He hung up his phone and headed for the stairs.