Dating political conservatives
At that you have to hand it to him, Mason said. He always finds the case. Hes an absolute terror to all of these young lawyers who take such things seriously. Turn Jackson loose in a law library and hell come up with a whole handful of precedents. And the nice part of it is he finds the precedents that are in your favor. So many briefing clerks seem to have a knack of finding precedents that are dead against what your client wants to do. He stood with his back to the door and I almost had to brush up against him to get into Gallopss office. He was a young man, not much more than thirty, if that, and as I went past him I could smell his cologne. It smelled expensive. He smiled at me as I went past but all he really did was stretch his lips without displaying any teeth and I didnt detect any warmth in it. I thought you might like to cruise uptown and join the hunt. Theres not much traffic in this weather, except for my guys on bikes and our boy Sig. Jackson deliberated a moment, blinked reflectively, and said,I believe she is, Mr. Mason, as though the thought had just struck him. Hes had a chance to talk. I take it the detectives assigned to the case have made contact? ButI dont, not based on the email fail. Come on, he could have pretty much any woman he wanted. Dino is just going to love this, Stone muttered to himself. His phone rang. Hello? What do you need? she asked, rummaging. Yeah? A minute ago you told me you were a cop. This is one case where all the facts are so carefully dovetailed that there cant be any question. Of course, my client tells me that the gun she put back in the glove compartment hadnt been fired, that it was the same gun she took out of the glove compartment, that she went home in the taxicab to change her shoes and stockings, since they had become so bedraggled and soiled from walking down from the hill that she was ashamed to be seen in them. Thatmay be true. Shes lied to me before. She’d doubtless lie again. A desperate woman will nearly always try to color the facts so that they will be in her favor. You sound like a conspiracy theorist now. Well, within a very short time. So then what happened? I got some of this from a news bulletin that came over the radio at 9:15. The details I got from Slick who called at 9:35. That was when you dropped out, wasnt it? But now it was just the attack of the branch-rattling wintry wind... Thats simple, I said. Find out what happened to Arch Mix and youll probably find whos back of it. Come on, he could have pretty much any woman he wanted...