The Procane Chronicle
““What have you dreamed up, St. Ives,” Carl Oller said, “some kind of go-between’s code?”
“Nothing so fancy,” I said. “It hasn’t got much to do with morals and ethics. It’s just how I make a living. If I talk too much, I’ll be out of business and then I’ll have to go look for an honest job and I’m too old for that.”
“You’re not even forty,” Frank Deal said.
“I feel old.”
We were in one of those small, brown interrogation rooms at Homicide South and I’d already been there for an hour. Deal and Ol...ler had taped my statement first, a brief, bare, formal one that was studded with facts, and now they were asking the informal questions, the ones that I didn’t have to answer unless I wanted to, and I was being choosy.
“You know what we could do, don’t you?” Oller said. “We could charge you with failure to report a felony.” He said it in a tone that didn’t carry much conviction, probably because he didn’t believe it either.
“No you can’t,”MoreLess
“Nothing so fancy,” I said. “It hasn’t got much to do with morals and ethics. It’s just how I make a living. If I talk too much, I’ll be out of business and then I’ll have to go look for an honest job and I’m too old for that.”
“You’re not even forty,” Frank Deal said.
“I feel old.”
We were in one of those small, brown interrogation rooms at Homicide South and I’d already been there for an hour. Deal and Ol...ler had taped my statement first, a brief, bare, formal one that was studded with facts, and now they were asking the informal questions, the ones that I didn’t have to answer unless I wanted to, and I was being choosy.
“You know what we could do, don’t you?” Oller said. “We could charge you with failure to report a felony.” He said it in a tone that didn’t carry much conviction, probably because he didn’t believe it either.
“No you can’t,”MoreLess
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