"searchlightsontheriver" - читать интересную книгу автора (Barton Gary)

"How come you were waiting for me at Norma's tonight, Johnny?" he asked me.

"I've been trying to break this case ever since you were sent to Lewiston," I said. "I
had a lead on Mike Lombardi, but not enough to prove he'd framed you. But there were enough
little things to scare him. When I heard this afternoon that you were going to escape, I
tagged it as another frame. Someone wanted me out of the way--and also Barney Walters'
because I'd been able to break him down and make him confess that he'd perjured his testimony
in court. So I had a pretty good idea what was going to happen: free you, frame you for the
murders of Walters and myself, then knock you off as an escaped convict. The case would be
closed after that."

"Those prison clothes were planted in that apartment," Ricky said. "This suit had been
left for me, and I changed in the boat."

"I figured that." I took a long drag on my cigarette. I said, "I'm anxious to see your
sister--without a gun in her hand. Let's go, Ricky."

As we drove back to Norma's, I noticed that there was a hazy blossom of light over
Lewiston then the lights went out and the river was dark. And I was thinking:

They all slip sometime.


THE END.


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