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“It is a no-lose situation,” she said. “You find the person and that part ends. You fail to find the person and you know that you tried. Your life of quiet desperation will always be waiting for you in these two rooms, at least until they demolish the building.”
Ann got up. I opened my wallet and handed her two twenty-dollar bills, which she tucked into the outer pocket of her briefcase.
There was a knock at the door. Ann looked at me. I nodded my head yes to let her know it was all right to answer it.
Sally was standing there.
“Lew,” she said. “Thought you’d like to know that Jane Welles is going with her aunt to Reno tomorrow.”
Ann touched Sally’s shoulder and left the office. Sally stood in the doorway waiting.
“How would you like to go to Flo’s for a barbecue dinner tonight? The kids, Adele, Ames?”
“No,” I said.
“Good,” said Sally. “Because there is no dinner. What there is, is a pair of tickets to a movie at Burns Court. You can’t say no. I already bought the tickets.”
“I don’t go out to movies,” I said.
“You were going to take Darrell.”
“I would have found a way out.”
“Life is full of new and crazy adventures, Lewis,” she said. “Look, I just got off of a fourteen-hour day. My feet hurt. I can’t stop seeing the face of a ten-year-old girl I think is being abused by her stepfather and I need a movie. Help me out here. Don’t make me work for it.”
“Let’s go see a movie,” I said.
“Good. You were a real hit with Darrell.”
Sally smiled as I folded the empty pizza box and shoved it in the wastebasket. I tried to smile back.
“Made a decision,” I said.
“Tell me about it on the way,” she said. “The movie starts in fifteen minutes.”
“It’ll just take a few seconds,” I said. “I’m going to find the person who killed my wife.”
“Which means you’re not going to lock yourself in your office in the morning?”
“No,” I said. “I’m not going to lock myself in my office. No.”
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