Calder moved before I'd finished the sentence.He stepped past me into the hallway and walked straight to the stairwell door at the far end of the corridor and pushed it open.I stayed in the doorway of his office and watched him lean out over the railing, looking down, listening.He stood there for five seconds. Ten. Then he straightened up and let the door fall shut and came back without rushing."Nothing," he said."You heard it too though.""I heard a door settle." He moved back into the office and I followed, and he didn't close the door behind us, just left it the way it was, open, the empty hallway beyond it visible from where we both stood. "These buildings are old. They make noise.""That wasn't building noise and you know it."He looked at me for a moment, then pulled out his desk chair and sat, not behind the desk but beside it, elbows on his knees, the posture of a man who had stopped performing professional distance for the evening. "Tell me what you mean by watching. Spe
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