Napoleon drank some of his coffee as he thought about Medford.

"Well, it's mostly what my father would have called locker room talk, sir. Anything that went right, Medford took full credit - anything wrong, he put full blame on Samuels. Samuels kept whatever he thought to himself, but his next partnering was with Franks. They've become a successful team - high success rate and they mesh well together. I can't see where that would have happened if Samuels had been as incompetent as Medford claimed."

Waverly tapped the stem of his pipe lightly against his lip.

"Next man?"