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"I thought you couldn’t take out a policy on sonature"

"Technically, that’s true, but it can be done"

I busiedup spilled ith a tissue In the ht bulb going on overhead, that she felt an intense dislike for Derek "What’s the story?" I asked

"Derek got caught with his pants down," she said "His claio after Bobby’d totaled his car a couple of tiht Bobby would self-destruct You know the type One accident after another until the kid winds up dead It becomes a socially acceptable form of suicide Personally, I’m not sure Derek was that far off Bobby drank like a fish and I’s He and Kitty were both a ent-"

"Be careful what you say here, Sufi I liked Bobby Callahan I think he had guts"

"I think we’re all aware of that," she said She was using that superior tone of voice that drove me mad, but I couldn’t afford to react at this point She crossed her legs, swinging one foot The dandelion fuzz on that slipper undulated as the air passed over it "You may not like it, but it is the truth And that’s not all of it Word has it that Derek took out a policy on Kitty too"

"For how much?"

"Haifa million bucks on each"

"Come on, Sufi That doesn’t hter"

"Kitty isn’t dead, though, is she?"

"But ould he kill Bobby? He’d have to be nuts The first thing the cops are going to do is turn around and look at him"

"Kinsey," she said patiently "Nobody ever said Derek had brains He’s an idiot A fool"

"He’s not that big a fool," I said "How could he hope to get aith it?"

"Nobody’s got any proof that he did anything There never was any evidence from the first accident and Jim Fraker seems to think this one came about because Bobby had a seizure first How can they pin that on Derek?"