I shook my head. “I’d tell you if I knew. Don’t let newspapers fool you: I’m not in this. Ask the police.” “That’d be very smart.” He smiled with his lower lip again. “That’d be the smartest thing I ever did. Me that a police captain’s been in a hospital three weeks on account we had an argument. The boys would like me to come in and ask ’em questions. They’d like it right down to the end of their blackjacks.”
