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on her behalf to the police, which I did. In it she
positively identified her assailant as Limus Barnum."
"She told you I never did a thing to her, right?"
"Yes. Right." He was watching Henry's eyes. "Yes.
She told me you came there sometime close to ten,
asked for Chin Lam, and she told you Chin was at Pru
Lattice's." Abernathy crossed his arms over his chest.
"And she told me that you left immediately upon
learning where your wife was." The lawyer watched
Henry's head jerk up and saw the eyes widen before
the mask hurried over them.
After a silence, Henry muttered, "So how'd they get
shot, the two guys you said before? Haig, her husband,
who's she say shot Haig?"
"Yes, that is the question, isn't it? Mrs. Haig says
that Barnum shot and killed her husband, who was firing
on him through the broken picture window." Abernathy
turned to look down at the dragon on the table. "Her
statement is that then she, struggling with Barnum for the
gun, and convinced that he intended to kill her as well
as her husband, shot Limus Barnum herself."
Henry sucked in air with a soft hiss.