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"Just a question of time," he said "So it’s the saain in the saot Queen for the Day running the show What’s his naym Stillman"

"He said you talked to hi pretty hard, but you get the sense that he’s got solitter He was Ellery’s sponsor, whatever that a a rabbi in the department?"

"That’s close"

"Soht"

"There you go"

"You got a sponsor yourself?" I nodded "It’s not Stillman, is it?"

"No"

"And I don’t suppose you’re Stillh to start telling other people how to do it"

"How long? Or isn’t that so I’m supposed to ask?"

"I don’t knohat anybody’s supposed to do or not do I’ up on a year the middle of next month"

"And Ellery--"

"Just celebrated two years"

"Just in tiet shot You knoho shot him?"

"Somebody anted hi on the subject ‘Here’s a little so!’ Far as who that soood as ?"

"No"

"My position, where would you go with this, Matt? You ood at it Who would you look at?"

"People he ran with Guys he jailed with"

"Uh-huh And when that didn’t go anywhere?"

"I’d probably wait for so chip"

"A Get Out of Jail Free card"

"Right"

"Other words, wait for the case to clear itself Soh-profile case, prominent and affluent victim, that’s another story Then you have to look like you’re doing so, so you take action whether or not there’s , Matt? The vic here, you knew hiain this past year, with both of you sober"

"So?"

"I was just wondering how close you ith hih to show up at the funeral"

"But no closer?"

"Not really I’m here now because someone asked me to see what I could find out"

"Souess Why I ask, I don’t want to say anything’s gonna rub you the wrong way But what it co this one out What do they say about speaking ill of the dead?"

"They say not to"

"Well, sometimes you can’t help it This was a low-life criminal for all but two years of his life, when he suddenly decided to get off the booze and find God Is that what happens? You find God?"