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Jane replied.  The whole bounty thing was a complete lie, but it did put Trisha at ease.  Trisha moved her hand away from the call button and looked at them with a wary glance.
    “Alright. I believe you. Now, what do you want to ask?” she said.
    Jane smiled and started to talk.  She was going to be the interrogator and not Franklin.  Even though he did handle the thing initially, he brought on too much suspicion.  It wasn’t a surprise, though; he was a rookie and Jane was a veteran at investigations and a master at getting the information she needed.
    “ First of all I wanted to know where you were each of the nights of the murder.  They all happened so close, so I was wondering if you or any of the other girls had a night off or were gone for whatever reason,’ Jane asked.
    “I know that I was here each of those days, but I would have to check the roster to see who else didn’t show up.  From there I can tell you more information,” the woman said.
    “Good.  Do that for me , please,” Jane asked.  The woman looked at her with a gaze of nervousness as she grabbed a book and started to flip through the pages.  Jane told her the dates again and after about a minute of awkward page flipping and cursing, the woman found what she needed.
    “ It seems like all my girls were here except for Alice,” the woman said.
    “ Where is Alice at right now?” Jane replied.
    “She’s probably in her room.  I know according to Scarlet she checked in but that’s all I know,” Trisha replied.
    Jane smiled and looked to the doorway, nodding towards Franklin.
    “You think you can talk to her?  And hopefully don’t fuck it up and scare her off?” Jane said.  She looked at him with an icy glance but the man seemed to be unfazed about it.
    “Sure.  I can at least try,” Franklin replied.
    “Good.  Get out of here.  I’ll meet up with you in a bit,” Jane said.  The man nodded and walked out, heading down to where Scarlet was to set up an appointment.  Jane turned to Trisha and looked at her with a curious glance.
    “So what is your specialty?” Jane asked.
    “Oh . I do just about everything, but my favorite is bondage,” the woman replied.
    “ That’s interesting.  Do you have a list of all the male patrons you’ve seen?”
    The woman looked at her with a nervous glanc e but shook her head.  “I don’t. Sorry. If I knew that all of this was going to happen, I would probably have done so.  I hope you’re the only one who bothers to take on the bounty and try to figure it out.  I don’t want to have to answer a ton of questions each and every day about it,” the woman said.
    “ So, if we can wrap up the case you won’t have to.  But I do have a couple other questions if you don’t mind.”
    “What are they?”
    “I wanted to know how popular the place was.  Do you get a lot of business?” Jane asked.  She sat down on one of the seats and looked at the woman with a curious glance.
    “ Honestly, not really good so far.  We wanted to help make the business a bit stronger so we started to do some promoting underground.  We don’t want the police to know yet and I’ve been very good at getting them off of my backs so far,” Trisha explained.
    “How so?”
    “I’ve told them that I’m handling the investigation personally so I don’t have to have them come into my club.  The BDSM elements out there in the dungeon are safe but the private girls are all illegal because we do take money for our services and that is prostitution.  We don’t want to cause trouble in that regard, but we don’t need the police snooping around, either, so that’s why I’ve been very wary and security has been stronger recently,” Trisha replied
    Jane mentally chuckled at the fact that the woman even mentioned that.  Tight security her ass, that’s for sure. 
    “I’m glad you’ve taken precautions.  But if things do get worse. do you think you can hold them off for a while longer?” Jane