Foul Play At the Pta
“Gus looked at me across the top of his battered desk. The piles of papers were, I was pretty sure, different than the piles I’d seen last year, but one stack of manila folders looks much like any other. Gus had never been good at cleaning out his church choir folder, so why would he be any better at cleaning his desk?
“So I suppose Marina has you poking around into Sam’s death?”
I jerked my head up so fast I was bound to have a stiff neck the next day. “What makes you say that?”
Gus laughed. “I...’ve known you for almost twenty years, I’ve known Marina for nearly thirty, and I remember what happened last fall. I’m no genius, but even a small-town cop can figure out a three-syllable word like ‘precedent.’ ”
“Um . . .”
“Don’t worry.” His shoes went up on the edge of the desk and he put his hands behind his head. It was all designed to put the person in this seat at ease, but I’d learned a little bit about precedent, too. This was the position Gus took when he wanted to be friendly, disarming, and so confide-able that you’d willingly confess all your sins, including the one time you took a Popsicle from your grandmother’s freezer without asking.MoreLess
“So I suppose Marina has you poking around into Sam’s death?”
I jerked my head up so fast I was bound to have a stiff neck the next day. “What makes you say that?”
Gus laughed. “I...’ve known you for almost twenty years, I’ve known Marina for nearly thirty, and I remember what happened last fall. I’m no genius, but even a small-town cop can figure out a three-syllable word like ‘precedent.’ ”
“Um . . .”
“Don’t worry.” His shoes went up on the edge of the desk and he put his hands behind his head. It was all designed to put the person in this seat at ease, but I’d learned a little bit about precedent, too. This was the position Gus took when he wanted to be friendly, disarming, and so confide-able that you’d willingly confess all your sins, including the one time you took a Popsicle from your grandmother’s freezer without asking.MoreLess
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