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Elinor nodded when he said he hadn't touched it that much, and again to thank him when she took the strip from him. She set it and the receipt down before crossing to a shelf lined with various jars, selecting one without hardly taking the time to notice it. She didn't need to.
"The only problem with taking fingerprints from this is the kind of paper used to print receipts. It's not like normal paper, you notice. Still... This should be easy," she said as she pulled a brush out of the drawer in front of her station. She then unscrewed the jar, which contained lots of fine black powder, and dipped the ti of the brush into it, shaking off excess.
"Depending on how old it is," she added, as she began to dust the paper lightly, swiftly covering the receipt with a fine grey sand. A few defined blotches showed up as the powder clung to the remnants of the finger prints.
Elinor held the clear strip under the magnifying glass to get a look at the employee's print before closely looking at the receipt and holding it up in front. "The edges, you say..." she muttered, holding the strip up before carefully pressing it to the paper. When she peeled it off, she had a distinct match of the employee's print, darkened by the powder that stuck.
"The full fingerprints are all smudges here, but I think I can..." She trailed off as she pulled out a couple more of those strips and pressed them, individually, to each of the partial fingerprints. Then she lined them up, one of top of the others. Of course, it wasn't perfect. She would need to hold them under one of her microscopes before she could align them.
Elinor turned to the adjacent table and began lining up the "slides" under one of the microscopes she had there. "I'll probably be doing this all day, considering the state of my lab," she commented. Once these people were gone, she was going to go back to looking for evidence. And she was going to strangle whomever the perpetrators were. At least, that's what she told herself.
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