cuments to be.

A few weeks later.... "Mr. Smith? Yes, thank you for returning my call
so promptly. Yes, the merchandise was as you represented. The
professionals have authenticated it." He listened briefly, then said,
"We are going to need two more. I neglected dates on the previous
order and we have to show repetition of this practice.

"All right. I'll meet you there in one hour with the accessories and
balance of payment for the previous order."

After hanging up the phone, he opened his briefcase and extracted a
small packet of bright blue, Belmont Student Feedback Forms and a sheet
with the typewritten messages that had been created to be forged onto
them. He looked to see that the rest of the contents were in place,
then returned everything to the briefcase and left the room carrying it.

The document examiner was seated, sworn and proceeded to give her
qualifications which were concerned with her training, the number of
years in the profession and clients.

Alice Stebbins was quite short. Her features gave her age as around
fifty and holding. She dressed severely, in browns and blacks which
made her look perky and birdlike. Peering at the hearing panel over
her half glasses enhanced the bird image, but it was destroyed when she
opened her mouth.

Her voice, far from a peep-peep one might expect, was deep and strong.
She had learned well that when one was giving expert testimony, one
presented a confident, assured bearing.

Further questions from the chair led her through the evidence and she
readily identified all but two of the seven 'suspicious' critiques as
being written by Trenchant. Her language was laced with the
correctness of one accustomed to giving court appearances. She
prefaced much of her testimony with the caveat, 'in my opinion'. Her
attitude of selfassuredness belied this qualification.

"Also, in my opinion, those two most probably were written by her.
Certainty was not possible since they contained printing and I was not
given enough or recent enough exemplars of Dr. Trenchant's printing."

Using two large easels, she demonstrated various letters and
combination of letters photographed and enlarged from the standards or
exemplars and from the 'suspect' documents.

This kind of testimony was familiar to Janet. She faithfully recorded
the words being spoken and knew that standards or exemplars are writing
and printing that are authenticated. That is, that are defini