A Game for the Living (2014)
“Castillo Z. telephoned at nine-fifteen the next morning and woke Theodore up.
“Well,” he said on a note of triumph, “your friend is released. They questioned him all night. I haven’t even been to bed yet. But he is free.”
“Then they think he’s innocent?”
“Why, yes. So do I. The evidence is not enough—”
“They proved what time he went to his own house after dinner?”
“No—not exactly. But what they have is sufficient to show that Ramón Otero did not do it. Señor Otero thinks he ...was home by ten-thirty. Now the doctor does not think she was killed before eleven. Eleven is the earliest.”
Or ten minutes to eleven, Theodore thought, remembering his watch had said one-fifty when the doctor gave his two-to-three-hour opinion. And Ramón only thought he was home by ten-thirty. “How is Señor Otero?” Theodore asked.
“Ugh!MoreLess
“Well,” he said on a note of triumph, “your friend is released. They questioned him all night. I haven’t even been to bed yet. But he is free.”
“Then they think he’s innocent?”
“Why, yes. So do I. The evidence is not enough—”
“They proved what time he went to his own house after dinner?”
“No—not exactly. But what they have is sufficient to show that Ramón Otero did not do it. Señor Otero thinks he ...was home by ten-thirty. Now the doctor does not think she was killed before eleven. Eleven is the earliest.”
Or ten minutes to eleven, Theodore thought, remembering his watch had said one-fifty when the doctor gave his two-to-three-hour opinion. And Ramón only thought he was home by ten-thirty. “How is Señor Otero?” Theodore asked.
“Ugh!MoreLess
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