329 INVESTIGATION

A police cab pulled up in front of the hospital. Two officers alighted from the cab and walked into the building. Madison and Ethan, who stood beside the window in the hallway on the ninth floor, saw them. They thought nothing of it. And she continued talking. Minutes later. The officers walked right into the hallway. They stopped to speak to the nurse, who made a gesture, and they immediately stepped back into the elevator. Madison and Ethan exchanged glances and followed the cops at a respectable distance in order to ascertain what their mission was in the hospital, especially at such an odd moment when the media and television channels were busy relaying the heat of a bank robbery in the city. By the time Ethan and Madison would get off the elevator, the policemen had approached Isa, who sat dejectedly. They asked questions about it. "Ma'am, the young man Luka, who is he to you?" The cops asked, bringing out a short red notepad as he wrote. "He's my son; is there a problem?" Isa