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"I think that’s a safe bet She’d never tolerate his profiting from Bobby’s death My God, it was the worst possible move he could have made as far as she’s concerned Besides which, it sets him up as a murder suspect"

"My father wouldn’t kill anyone!"

"That’s what he says about you"

"Well, it’s true I didn’t have any reason to want Bobby dead Neither of us did I didn’t even know about the ht not be the motive," I said "It’s an obvious place to start, but it doesn’t necessarily go anywhere"

"But you don’t think Daddy did it, do you?"

"I haven’t ure out what Bobby was up to and I need to fill in soet a line on it What was his relationship to Sufi? You have any idea?"

Kitty picked up her cigarette, averting her gaze She took a moment to tap the ash fro and put it out Her nails were bitten down so far the pads of the fingers see with herself I kept ave her some room "She was a contact," she said finally, her voice low "Bobby was doing this investigation or so for somebody else"

"Who?"

"I don’t know"

"It had to be the Frakers, right? I talked to Sufi last night, and the htailed it over to their place She was in there so long, I finally had to go home"

Kitty’s eyes came up to mine "I don’t know for sure what it was"

"But how’d he get into it? What was it about?"