“He has some kind of heart damage. Either he has a degenerative disease or he’s had an attack—a lot of people have attacks and never know it. He has a prostate condition. That could be the degenerative disease again or something separate. They have to run tests for syphilis, and Scanlon isn’t showing any of the common symptoms of the third stage—that’s the final phase and it can come twenty years after infection. Scanlon doesn’t know if he ever had syphilis. In any case, they didn’t think there was any brain damage. And he’s suffering from malnutrition. The doctor told me that he could have come up with that part of the diagnosis over the telephone.” Captain Leland coughed. “Then I asked him if any of it would interfere with bringing Scanlon to trial. He told me to forget about a trial.