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“All right, all right, one more thing,” she said, trying to hold him in place.
“Brummel was there, Marshall. He saw the whole thing.”
“What whole thing?”
“My arrest! I was trying to explain who I was to the cop, I was trying to
show him my press card, he only took my purse and camera away from me
and handcuffed me, and I looked over toward the dart throwing booth again
and I saw Brummel watching. He ducked out of sight right away, but I swear
I saw him watching the whole thing! Marshall, I went over this all last night,
I replayed it and replayed it, and I think … well, I don’t know what to think,
but it has to mean something.”
“To continue the scenario,” Marshall ventured, “the film is gone from your
camera.”
Bernice checked. “Oh, it’s still in the camera, but that means nothing.”
Hogan sighed and thought the thing over. “Okay, so shoot up the rest of
the roll, and try to get something we can use, right? Then develop it and we’ll
see. Can we go now?”
“Have I ever made any impulsive, imprudent, overassuming mistakes like
this before?”
“Sure you have.”
“Aw, c’mon, now! Extend me a little grace just this once.”
“I’ll try to close my eyes.”
“Your wife’s waiting.”
“I know, I know.”
Marshall didn’t quite know what to say to Kate when they rejoined her.
“Sorry about this …” he muttered.
“Now then,” Kate said, trying to pick up from where they left off, “we
were talking about vehicles. Bernice, I had to drive your car here so you
could have it to get home. If you drop me off at our house …”
“Yes, right, right,” said Bernice.
“And, Marshall, I have a lot of things to do this afternoon. Can you pick up
Sandy after her psychology class?”
Marshall didn’t say a word, but his face showed a resounding no.
Kate took a set of keys from her purse and handed them to Bernice. “Your
car is right around the corner, next to ours in the press space. Why don’t you
bring it around?”
Bernice took her cue and went out the door. Kate held Marshall with a