Chapter 11
There was a knock on the President's door. "Come in."
The door opened and CJ walked back into the office. Leo and Ron were standing by the desk, talking to the President.
"Well, Ron, what did you think?"
"Nothing more than we already knew. Your signature on the form has been forged and so has Mrs. Bartlet's. The papers were filed by a lawyer in Manchester, who has surprisingly disappeared. This lawyer has never done any business with you or your family. So right now that's a dead end. We have an FBI alert out for him, but he could be in Canada for all we know. And obviously, Mr. Thomas won't release his source so that's also a dead end. We'll be looking at other angles, but right now I have nothing to share."
"CJ, do you…"
"Sir, I'll clean out my desk right now."
"No, CJ. I need you right now. After this is all over, then we'll have another conversation. What I was going to say is do you think Danny could be of assistance? I was hoping he could snoop around and find out about the talk on the street. Maybe somebody was bragging about this and their big mouth could have been overheard."
"Uh, yes, sir! I'll be glad to ask Danny what he knows. And thank you sir, for letting me try to solve this with you. I feel bad about this even though I don't think I did anything wrong."
"CJ, we'll fix blame when there's blame to fix. Right now, I want to get the truth out, but I can't do that until we know who and why."
Jed shrugged his shoulders.
As he looked at each of the three people in the room, he knew the next person he would see wasn't going to take it so calmly.
He hoped she would be angry. Anger he could handle. Tears were another story.