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"I know thewith and I have a personal stake in the outcome I think he was murdered and it pisses me off Disease is neutral Ho for Bobby is coloring your judgment His death was accidental"

"Maybe Or maybe I can persuade Homicide that he died as a result of a o"

"If you can prove that," he said "So far I gather you don’t have o on, which is where your work differs fro conclusive here and I won’t have to leave the room"

"I do envy you that," I said "I mean, I don’t doubt Bobby was killed, but I don’t have any idea who did it and I may never have any evidence"

"Then I have it all over you," he said "For the most part, I deal in certainty Once in a while, I’m stumped, but not often"

"You’re lucky"

Marcy returned with Kelly’s address and telephone number on a slip of paper, which she handed towryly "I better not keep you in any case Let me kno it comes out"

"I’ll do that Thanks for this," I said, holding up the slip of paper

It was now five o’clock I found a pay phone in an offshoot of one of the hospital corridors and tried Kelly s nu I identifiedhim of Dr Fraker’s introduction

"I knoho you are"

"Listen," I said, "could I stop by and talk to you? There’s so I need to check out"

He seemed to hesitate at first "Sure, OK You knohere I am?"

Kelly s apartment was on the west side of town, not far from St Terry’s I trotted back to my car and drove over to an address on Castle I parked in front of a fra driveway to a s at the rear of the property His place, like e at one time