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others me. And, I don't know, a couple of other
things. One is that Mrs. Haig says she phoned for the
ambulance. I think that shows remarkable presence of
mind for someone in the condition she was in. But I
chanced to locate on the phone this morning the
operator who took that call, and oddly enough she
thought the voice was that of a man. Of course, she
admitted she easily could be mistaken."
Neither spoke for a while. The ash fell into Henry's
palm. Finally he jerked his head toward the couch.
"Look. Sit down. No reason to stand." With a nod the
lawyer sat on the couch, his arm touching the bright silk
pillow. "Okay," Henry told him, his voice low. "Let's
say it goes down this way. What happens next? She
don't have to stand trial, does she? I mean if Barnum
killed her husband. Okay, look, say she took back
what she told you, any way to keep this rape shit out of
it, if, say, she wasn't the one that, you know?"
"No, I don't know. But no. There's no way not to
have the assault brought out in testimony, it's already
part of the statement, on medical record. That's the
whole point. Her assault is the crime that precipitated