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SENATOR SUNRAIDER WAS STILL in surgery, but we found old Hickman on the seventh floor. He sat in a dimly lit section of the corridor, grasping the arms of a white metal chair that had been placed to the left of the door leading to the room assigned to the Senator, his huge body showing in silhouetted profile against the brightness flooding from the turn in the corridor some fifty yards beyond. Two security men were facing him, bending slightly forward with folded arms, their bemused faces illuminated by a fixture located on the wall behind his head. They were listening to Hickman as we hurried along the corridor.
". No, like I tell you, they had nothing to do with it," Hickman said. "They were just there looking on like the rest of the visitors, and they should be allowed to go free and unharmed."