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was that Limus Barnum was responsible for her
husband's death and that she had shot Limus Barnum."
Abernathy set aside the pillow and stood. "Well, you
see, I don't know her well.
I would have thought it would be impossible,
psychologically, for a woman like Mrs. Haig to, in your
phrase, blow a man away with a gun like that, not
merely once, but three times. Or that she would protect
a man who had killed her husband."
"People do what they got to do."
"Yes. That's exactly what Mrs. Haig told me."
"What?"
"We are all capable of anything. It's just that our
lives are stuffed inside so much padding that most of us
never have to find it out."
"I guess." Henry stood also.
"All right, Maynard. For now, let it go at that." The
lawyer picked up the wedding photograph, looked at it,
then took the ivory ball in his hand. Inside the ball a
world had been marvelously carved.
He turned it as he spoke. "A detective will come to
interview you.