give you ten minutes to get to a phone and do your talking to the girl. I give you ten minutes to get to Thursby’s joint—Geary near Leavenworth—you could do it easy in that time, or fifteen at the most. And that gives you ten or fifteen minutes of waiting before he showed up.” “I knew where he lived?” Spade asked. “And I knew he hadn’t gone straight home from killing Miles?” “You knew what you knew,” Dundy replied stubbornly. “What time did you get home?”
