A Deadly Shade of Gold
“I'd told her he was due back in town." "Now how would you have known that?" "He phoned me Thursday from Waycross, Georgia, to ask me if she was so sore at him she never wanted to see him again. I said no." "Couldn't he wait to get here to find out?" "Maybe he wasn't even going to come here if I told him she was too angry or married, or moved away." "Okay, so why didn't you just tell her where she could find him?" "Sam wasn't in very good shape, and that was a crummy place he was staying. And I didn't want him to think I'd tipped her off that he'd come in Friday instead of Saturday. I thought it would give him a chance to pull himself together, and go out to the car. It wasn't much of a setting for a reunion, you see." "I can buy that. It ties up a few loose ends, McGee. Like the way she damned near passed out on Thursday night out at the Mile O'Beach." "That's when I told her he was coming back. Did you think that's when I told her somebody was going to kill him?" "The thought passed ...through my mind.MoreLess
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