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I raised my hands just to show I kne to behave "Hey, you’re pretty good You alot aith it"

Her smile was thin "Now that you’re ’wanted,’ I can do it, don’t you think?" she said conversationally "All I have to do is pull the trigger and claim trespass"

"And then what?"

"You tell me"

I hadn’t quite worked the whole story out, but I knew enough to uess Why you have chats with killers in circuainst hope you can (1) talk them out of it, (2) stall until help arrives, or (3) enjoy a few more moments of this precious coe part) of breathing in and out Hard to do with your lungs blown out your back

"Well," said I, hoping to ure once your daddy dies and you unload this place, you’ll take the proceeds, add them to the profits from the forty-two thou you stole, and sail off into the sunset Possibly with Dwight Shales, or so you hope"

"And why not?"

"Why not, indeed? Sounds like a great plan Does he know about it yet?"

"He will," she said

"What ree?"

"Why wouldn’t he? He’s free now And I will be, too, as soon as Pop dies"

"And you think that constitutes a relationship?" I said, astonished

"What do you know about relationships?"

"Hey, I’ve been married twice That’s more than you can say"

"You’re divorced You don’t know dick"

I had to shrug at that

"I bet Jean was sorry she confided in you"

"Very At the end, she put up quite a fight"

"But you won"