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Hacker wound up in the hospital with two broken arms, a broken leg, and a nice new three-piece pelvis. He’ll be trouble when he gets out, but that won’t be for a quite a while.

And my mentor, Herbie-you remember Herbie? — he burgled a psychiatrist’s office and found a file that made it clear that the good doctor was treating a patient who was “conflicted,” to use the doctor’s term, by the fact that he’d murdered two people. Herbie made his usual phone call, and then some very unsettling stuff started to happen, and Herbie called me, and-

Oh, forget it. That’s another story.