Testify Memory

"You remember, don't you?" Heidel said again, and suddenly something about the voice clicked for Madden. The old pathways reconnected, some very stale neurons fired up after decades on idle. "Edison," he said.

Heidel bobbed his sleek chin ever so slightly, a minimal acknowledgement. "I might have used that name once."

He might have used it (among others), in Berkeley in 1968. He might have used it in Oakland ten years later when he met with a rookie field agent to pass along evidence leading to the capture of two persons later convicted of kidnapping, bank robbery, possession of explosives.