“There’s talk going around that you and Archer’s wife were cheating on him.” Spade laughed. “That sounds like something you thought up yourself.” “Then there’s not anything to it?” “Not anything.” “The talk is,” Dundy said, “that she tried to get a divorce out of him so’s she could put in with you, but he wouldn’t give it to her. Anything to that?” “No.” “There’s even talk,” Dundy went on stolidly, “that that’s why he was put on the spot.”
