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"What are you doing here today of all days?" Roddy asked.

"I'm here every day now, Sheriff. There's been a reshuffling. I hold a very  important office in the Church:  Deacon. Mr. Hansen is the Prophet now, and Paul Bergin is the Apostle."

Sheriff  Roddy   Walker  caught   up   on   all  the   required introductions. "Mr. Klaus Hansen, Mr. Gabriel  Shybear, this is Special Agent  in Charge Clyde  Tolson of the Federal  Bureau of Investigation, and with  him today are Special  Agents Mark Felt and Bill Sullivan."

Mark Felt said, "Gabriel, would you  be so kind as  to take the Sheriff through  your temple so  he can make  a note of  all the doors that are locked before we get started."

All of the doors except one along the wide  carpeted foyer of A Wing were locked. While Gabriel and the Sheriff ranged through the rest of the temple,  the Bureau agents went  through Paul's office  like a  tornado  but  it yielded  nothing. The door to Gabriel's  office  was  wide  open,  so  the  agents  could  not enter there. They moved to  the  hallway that  ran around  the circumference of the Sanctuary and did a third of a turn to the right, checking some  of  the doors  in  Roddy's notes,  before entering C Wing. The rooms that Gabriel  and Dory  had cleaned were not locked.

"What's behind that door?"

Klaus and Gabriel exchanged a  glance, but the meaning  of this was lost on the sheriff and the FBI agents.

"That's a dry hole, Agent Sullivan," said Gabriel. "It's just my broom closet." Nevertheless, Special  Agent  Felt  found  the appropriate key. Like Gabriel said, there was nothing inside but cleaning supplies.

Klaus said "lucky" to Gabriel  and left  the party for  his own office. After that the  sheriff and  the  three Bureau  agents headed down the wide carpeted stairs to the basement cafeteria. There wasn't much of interest to the FBI  downstairs, which was open and airy, even in the kitchen, but the  supply room on the north wall was locked and everyone gravitated to there.

"Is this the room from your report?" Tolson asked Special Agent Bill.

"Mecca," Sullivan said.