I REACHED THE city-sized campus of the U just after four-thirty. More people were leaving than arriving, and the first two parking lots I tried were being retrofitted for something. University officials gripe about budget constraints1, but the jackhammers are always working overtime2. It's a boom time for L.A., might endure till the next time the earth shrugs3.
It was nearly five P.M. when I hurried up the stairs to the psych building, hoping someone would be around. The cement-and-stucco waffle had been repainted: from off-white to a golden beige with chartreuse overtones. Uncommonly4 bright for a place devoted5 to the joys of artificial intelligence and compelling brain-lesioned rats to race through ever more Machiavellian6 mazes7. Maybe boom times hadn't loosened up grant money and the new hue8 was an attempt to connote warmth and availability. If so, eight stories of Skinner-box architecture said forget it.
By the time I entered the main office, half the lights were out and only one secretary remained, locking up. But the right secretary—a plump, ginger9-haired young woman named Mary Lou Whiteacre, whose five-year-old son I'd treated last year.
Brandon Whiteacre was a nice little boy, soft and artistic10, with his mother's coloring and scared-bunny eyes. A freeway pileup had shattered his grandmother's hip11 and sent him to the hospital for observation. Brandon had escaped with nothing broken other than his confidence, andsoon he began wetting his bed and waking up screaming. Mary Lou got my name from the alumni referral list, but the department wasn't picking up the tab. She was reeling from the crash and still chafing12 under the financial hardships imposed by a three-year-old divorce. Her HMO offered the usual cruelty. I treated Brandon for free.
My footsteps made her look up, and though she smiled she seemed momentarily frightened, as if I'd come to revoke13 her son's recovery.
"Dr. Delaware."
"Hi, Mary Lou. How's everything?"
The red hair was a flyaway frizz that she patted down. "Brandon's doing great—I probably should have called you to tell you." She approached the counter. "Thanks so much for your help, Dr. Delaware."
"My pleasure. How's your mom?"
She frowned. "Her hip's taking a long time to heal, and the other driver's being a butt—denying responsibility. We finally got ourselves a lawyer, but everything just drags out. So what brings you here?"
"I'm trying to locate a student who was involved in research."
"A grad student?"
"Undergrad. I assume you have a record of ongoing14 projects."
"Well," she said, "that's generally not public information, but I'm sure you've got a good reason. . . ."
"This girl's gone missing for a week, Mary Lou. The police can't do much, and her mother's frantic16."
"Oh, no—but it's midquarter break. Students take off."
"She didn't tell her mother or her roommate, though she did say she'd continue to come here even during the break, to do research. So maybe the job took her out of town. A conference, or some kind of fieldwork."
"She didn't tell her mom anything?"
"Not a word."
She crossed the room to a wall of file cabinets. Same golden beige. The outcome of someone's experiment on color perception? Out came a two-inch-thick computer printout that she laid on a desk and flipped18 through. "What's her name?"
"Lauren Teague."
She searched, shook her head. "No one by that name registered with personnel on any federal or state grants—let's see about private foundations." Another flip17. She looked up, with the same worried expression I'd seen on her first visit to my office. Psychology19's code of ethics20 forbids bartering21 with a patient. I'd traded something with her, wondered if I'd stepped over the line.
"Nothing."
"Maybe there's a misunderstanding," I said. "Thanks."
She crossed her mouth with an index finger. "Wait a second—when it's part-time work, sometimes the professors hire out through one of those employee management firms. It avoids having to pay benefits."
Another cabinet, another printout. "Nope, no Lauren Teague. Doesn't look as if she's working here, Dr. Delaware. You're sure the study was in psychology? Some of the other departments have behavioral science grants—sociology, biology?"
"I assumed psychology, but you could be right," I said.
"Let me call over to the administration building, see what the central employee files turn up." Glance at the wall clock. "Maybe I can catch someone."
"I really appreciate this, Mary Lou."
"Don't even think about it," she said, as she dialed. "I'm a mom."
No job listing anywhere on campus. Mary Lou looked embarrassed— an honest person confronting a lie.
"But," she said, "they do have her enrolled22. Junior psych major, transferred from Santa Monica College. Tell you what—I'll pull our copy of her transcript23. I can't give you her grades, but I will tell you which professors she took classes from. Maybe they know something."
"I appreciate it."
"Hey," she said, "we're not even close to even in the thank-you department. . . . Okay, here we go: This past quarter she took a full load— four psych courses: Introductory Learning Theory with Professor Hall, Perception with Professor de Maartens, Developmental with Ronninger, Intro Social Psych with Dalby."
"Uh-huh."
"We were classmates," I said. "Didn't know he switched from clinical practice to teaching Social."
"He came on full-time24 a couple of years ago. Good guy, one of the less pompous25 ones. Even though he drives a Jag." Her eyes rounded and shepretended to slap her wrist. "Forget I said that." She began to return the transcript to the drawer.
"Lauren told her mother she got straight A's."
"Like I said, Dr. Delaware, grades are confidential26." Her eyes dropped to the paper. Tiny smile. "But if I was her mother I'd be proud. Smart girl like that, I'm sure there's an explanation. Here, let me write those professors' names down for you. Ronninger's on sabbatical, but the others are teaching all year. By this time I doubt they're in, but good luck."
"Thanks. You'd make a good detective."
"Me?" she said. "Never. I don't like surprises."
She locked up, and I walked her through the lobby, both our footsteps echoing on black terrazzo. When she was gone I strode back to the elevators and read the directory. Simon de Maartens's office was on the fifth floor, Stephen Z. Hall's and Gene R. Dalby's on the sixth.
I pushed the button and waited and thought about Lauren's lie to Andrew Salander. No research job. Probably covering for her real employment. Stripping, hooking, both. Resuming her old ways. Or she'd never stopped.
Runway modeling. Another lie? Or maybe gigs at the Fashion Mart were just another way to cash in on her looks.
Smart kid, but enrollment27 in college and good grades weren't contradictory28 to plying29 the flesh trade. Back when Lauren had worked for Gretchen Stengel, the Westside Madam had employed several college girls. Beautiful young women making easy money—big money. Someone able to compartmentalize and rationalize would find the logic30 unassailable: Why give up five-hundred-dollar tricks for a six-buck31-an-hour part-time bottle-washing gig without benefits?
Salander had said Lauren was living off investments, and I wondered if her body was the principal. If so, her disappearance32 could be nothing more than a quarter-break freelance to accrue33 spare cash.
No car, because she was flying—jetting off somewhere with a sheik or a tycoon34 or a software emperor, any man sufficiently35 rich and deluded36 to fall for the ego37 sop38 of purchased pleasure.
Lauren serving as amusement for a few days, returning home nicely invested. But if that was the case, why had she raised her mother's anxiety by not providing a cover story? And why hadn't she packed clothing?
Because this particular job required a new wardrobe? Or no clothing at all beyond the threads on her back?
She had taken her purse, meaning she had her credit cards. What did a party girl require other than willingness and magic plastic?
Maybe she was punishing Jane by slipping away without explanation— letting Jane know she wouldn't be controlled.
Or perhaps the answer was painfully simple: rest and recreation after grinding away for grades. Cooling out in one of the places she'd used before—nice quiet Malibu motel—if that was true.
Maybe Lauren had done the L.A.-to-Reno shuttle, found her old stomping39 grounds lucrative40, decided41 to stay for a while. . . . The elevator doors wheezed42 open, and I rode up to five. Professor Simon de Maartens's door was decorated with Far Side cartoons and a newspaper clipping about moose deaths from acid rain. Closed. I knocked. No answer. The handle didn't turn.
I had no more success at Stephen Hall's unadorned slab43 of chartreuse wood, but Gene Dalby's door was open and Gene was sitting at his desk, wearing a rumpled44 white shirt and khakis, bare feet propped45, gray laptop resting on a skinny stalk of thigh46. He typed, hummed tonelessly, wiggled his toes. A pair of huarache sandals sat near the legs of his chair. Coffee bubbled in an old white machine. A single window to his left framed rooftops and the northern edge of the campus botanical gardens. From a boom box on the ledge47 came supernatural guitar licks and a bruised48 voice. Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Crossfire49."
I said, "Uh, hi, Professor Dalby. Could we talk about my grades?"
Gene's head turned. Same bony pencil face and jug50 ears and rebellious51 ginger hair. His temples had silvered. Black-framed half-lens reading glasses rode the center of a swooping52, askew53 hook of a nose. He grinned, placed the specs on the desk, did the same with the laptop. "No way. You flunk54."
Jumping up to his full, ostrich-necked six-four, all loose limbs and oversized hands and bobbing head, he clasped my shoulders and shook his head in wonderment, as if my arrival heralded55 the second coming of something. Gene is one of the most outgoing people I know, a paragon56 of unadorned friendliness57, hyperactive maestro of the thunderous greeting. His good cheer is nearly constant, and he avoids complexity58. Unusual traits in a psychologist. So many of us were introspective, overly imaginative kids who got into the field trying to figure out why our mothers were depressed59 no matter what we did. In grad school a lot of people found him too good to be true and distrusted him. He and I always got along, though it rarely went beyond off-color jokes and casual lunches.
"So," he said. "Alex. How long has it been?"
"Awhile."
"Light-years, man. Here, sit— Coffee?"
I took a side chair, accepted a mug of something strong and bitter and vaguely60 coffeelike. He kicked the sandals under the desk. The office was tiny, and his size didn't help. He hunched61 like a pet confined by a cruel owner.
"Working during the break?" I said.
"Best time, less distraction62. Besides, back when I was in practice I used to see fifty, sixty patients a week. That was real work. This academic racket is legalized theft. Nine months a year, make your own hours." He laughed. "These guys love to complain, but it's a paid vacation."
"When did you make the switch?" I said.
"Three years ago. Sold the practice to my associates and presented the department with an offer they couldn't refuse: They take me on part-time, no job security, no benefits, and I carry a heavy teaching load, in exchange for a clinical full professorship and no assignment to committees."
"Exactly, but the funny thing is even though I didn't plan to, I'm doing research anyway. First time in years. Asking questions that really interest me rather than churning out garbage in tribute to the tenure64 gods. And I love the teaching, man. The kids are great. Despite what the idiot pundits65 say, students are getting smarter."
"What kind of research are you doing?" I said.
"Political attitudes in little kids. We go out to grade schools, try to gauge66 their perceptions of candidates. You'd be surprised how much little kids know about the scumbags who run for office. I feel like I'm home—social psych was always my first love. I went into clinical because I also liked clinical and I thought it would be nice to help people and allthat. But, mainly, because I needed to make a buck. Married with kids— unlike you, I never went through the swinging bachelor stage."
"You've got the wrong guy there, Gene."
"I don't think so, man. I distinctly recall you being a departmental love object. Even the girls who didn't shave their legs looked at you thatway."
"I must have missed it," I said.
He grinned. "Listen to him, that coyness—all part of the charm. Anyway . . . you look great, Alex."
"You too."
"I look like I always did—Ichabod Crane on methamphetamine. But yeah, I'm doing what I can to stay in shape, got into long-distance hiking. Jan and I did the John Muir Trail last summer, Alaska before that." He turned the volume down on Stevie Ray.
I named the song.
He said, "S.R.V. He was the man. Sad, huh? Struggles his whole life with dope and booze, plays bars for chump change, finally gets sober, makes it big, and the damn plane goes down. Talk about an object lesson."
"Live life to the fullest," I said.
"Live life and don't worry. Be happy—like that other song. Been telling that to patients for years, now I'm following my own advice. Not that it took courage or some big-time follow-your-bliss thing to motivate me. I got lucky—bought in at ground level with a start-up software company, turned a penny stock into dollars. Ten years of bad stock tips from my brother-in-law, finally one pays off. We're not talking private jet here, but now if I don't like the taste of something I don't have to eat it. The kids are in college and Jan's law practice is doing fine. Life is shockingly good, thanks to dot-corn madness. The company's going to shit, but I've already sold."
"Congratulations."
"Yeah," he said. "Even traded the Honda for a Jag— Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful." He shifted in his chair, cracked his knuckles67. "So what brings you here? Doing some teaching yourself?"
"No, I'm trying to locate a student named Lauren Teague."
"Locate as in . . . ?"
I told him about the seven-day absence, implied without spelling it out that Lauren had once been a patient, emphasized Jane Abbot's anxiety."Poor lady," he said. "So you were here and just dropped in?"
"No, I thought you might be able to help me. Lauren told her roommate she had a research job here, but that doesn't seem to be true. She was in four classes last quarter, one of them your Intro Social section. I'm checking with all the profs, see if anyone remembers her."
"Lauren Teague," he said. "I sure don't. Had five hundred plus kids in that class. What others did she take?"
I named the courses.
"Let's see," he said. "Herb Ronninger is out in the Indian Ocean somewhere studying violent preschoolers—his class pulls over six hundred, so even if he were here I doubt he could help you. De Maartens and Hall are young-buck new-hires, and Learning and Perception tend to be a bit smaller. Let me call them for you."
"I already tried their offices. Do you have home numbers?"
"Sure." He found and copied the listings, handed them to me.
"Thanks."
"Lauren Teague," he said, putting his glasses back on. He opened a bottom desk drawer, rifled papers for a while, pulled out a list of names and grades. "Yeah, she was enrolled all right. . . . Did well, too. Very well—eighteenth out of 516. . . . Good, solid A's on all her exams. . . . B plus on her paper." More scrounging produced another list: "'Iconography in the Fashion Industry.' Oh, her."
"You remember her."
"The model," he said. "I thought of her that way because she looked like one—all the basics: tall, blond, gorgeous. And when I read the paper, I figured she'd been writing from experience. She also stood out because she was quite a bit older than the average junior—pushing thirty, right?"
"She's twenty-five."
"Oh," he said. "Well, she seemed older. Maybe because she dressed maturely—pantsuits, dresses, expensive-looking stuff. I remember thinking, this girl has money. Kind of aloof68, too. She used to sit in the back by herself, take notes constantly. Never saw her with any other students. . . . So why'd I give her a B plus on the paper? . . . If the students want them, I hand them back, don't know if she picked hers up ... but I do keep a comment card. . . ." Bending low, he began tossing papers out of drawers, created a high pile on the desk. "Okay, here goes." He flourished a stack of rubber-banded blue index cards. "My notes say, 'High on anger, low on data.' If I remember, it was a bit of a screed69, Alex."
"Anger at the fashion industry?" I said.
"From what I recall. Probably the usual feminist70 stuff—woman as meat, subservient71 roles coerced72 by unrealistic conceptions of femininity. I get at least two dozen every quarter. All valid73 points, but sometimes they substitute passion for facts. I really can't remember this particular paper, but if I had to guess, that would be it. So she left without telling Mom. Is that an aberration74?"
"According to Mom."
He scratched his chin. "Yeah, as a parent that would worry me." Placing his feet on the floor and his hands on his knees, he looked at me over the rims75 of the half-glasses. "It's funny—actually it's anything but funny—your coming around about a missing student. When you first told me, it gave me a start. Because something like this happened last year. Another girl—some kind of campus beauty queen. Shane something, or Shana . . . Shanna—I don't recall her exact name. Left her dorm room one night and never came back. Big stir on campus for a few days, then nothing. It affected76 me more than it might've because Jan and I had just sent our Lisa off to Oberlin. She was fine in the separation-anxiety department, but we weren't doing so well. I'd just started to settle down—had stopped phoning the poor kid twelve times a day—and this Shanna thing happens."
"She was never found?"
He shook his head. "Talk about the ultimate parent's nightmare. There's no word I despise more than closure—pop-psych crapolsky. But not knowing's got to be worse. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Teague girl—it just reminded me."
"Gene, in terms of the research job, is there something I might've missed? I checked federal, state, and private grants, including part-time positions."
He thought awhile. "What about something off-campus? Paid subject positions. You see ads in the Daily Cub77. 'Feeling low or moody78? You may be clinically depressed and qualify for our cool little clinical trials.' Pharmaceutical79 outcome studies, obviously the FDA or whoever's in charge doesn't see a problem using paid participants. The Cub's out ofcirculation till next quarter, but maybe you can find something. Still, what would that tell you about where she is?"
"Probably nothing," I said. "Unless Lauren signed up for a study because she had a specific problem—as in depression. Depressed people drop out."
"Her mother wouldn't know if she was that low?"
"Hard to say. Thanks for the tip, Gene—I'll look into it."
I got up, placed the coffee on a table, and headed for the door.
"You're really extending yourself on this, Alex."
"Don't ask."
He stared at me but said nothing.
No longer a clinician, but he knew enough not to press it.
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