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“Can’t you? Well, then”

“Damn it, Roarke, you’re the only one as involved with both victims”

“And what’s my motive, Lieutenant?”

“Don’t use that tone with me I hate it when you do that Cold, controlled, superior” Giving up, she began to pace “I know you didn’t have anything to do with the murders, and there’s no evidence to support your involvement But that doesn’t break the link”

“And that makes it difficult for you, because your name is, in turn, linked with mine Or was”

“I can handle that”

“Then why have you lost weight?” he demanded “Why are there shadows under your eyes? Why do you look so unhappy?”

She yanked out her recorder, slapped it on his desk A barrier between the you know about these wonificant detail Damn it, dao to the West End in the o out to the patio at ht”

He tapped out his cigarette, then rose slowly “You’re giving me more credit than I deserve, Eve I didn’t know Cicely that well We did business, socialized in the round and her position As to Yvonne, ere lovers I enjoyed her, her energy, her zest I know she had ambition She wanted stardom and she earned it, deserved it But I can’t tell you the minds of either of these women”

“You know people,” she argued “You have a way of getting inside their heads Nothing ever surprises you”

“You do,” he murmured “Continually”

She only shook her head “Tell me why you think Yvonne Metcalf went out to meet someone on the patio”

He sipped brandy, shrugged “For advancelory, excitement, love Probably in that order She would have dressed carefully because she was vain, ad wouldn’t have ly so”

She let out a little breath This hat she needed He could help her see the victims “Were there other men?”

He was brooding, he realized, and forced hiht, excellent in bed I ireat many men in her life”