The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 7

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"If a bullet had struck there, what size would it have been?" There was no longer any need to keep up the pretense. "Probably smaller than a .38 caliber." "From Larkln's .32 automatic?" "I ean't be sure, but I guess to." "Uh-huh. A gun flght in this room, each firing one shot." "Then why didn't the killer claim self-defense instead of trying to frame me?" not self-defense to kill a district attorney who pulls hii gun in the line of duty." I said testily: "Did it occur to you that a .38 caliber revolver is generally a police gun?" "Uh-huh. That's why the killer couldn't get rid of it after he A shot Larkin. And a blackmailer didnt tap Willie Shad't wire There's no percentage in it.

Shad's dangerous, and revealing publicly that he's a crook Is no to anybody." I looked down at Hannah sitting limp and apathetic on the unmade bed, defeated and crushed. I picked up the briefcase and walked over to her and tald: "Here, it'i yours." She looked up, not at the extended briefcate but into face, and there seemed to be i shimmering gray mist in her eyei. "Thinks, Paul," the aald quietly, "but don't want it." "It'll uve your father'i ent Job and maybe let him become a Senator." wasn't worth anything that happened." I stepped back from the bed. Helm, sucking his pipe, watched me thoughtfully. "What would you do with it?" I asked him.

He smiled gently. "At the moment It's your problem." I replaced the briefcase on the table and sat down on the bed beside Hannah. Her wistfully lovely face turned to me. Her hand slipped Into mine. 1 didn't want payment, but I didn't take my hand away.

"What now?" 1 said. Helm was looking out of the window over our heads. "I'm waiting." "Not for the police," I said with weary sarcasm. "You're not so far off at that." In the stillness we heard the car. It swung to the aide of the house and stopped.

For an instant Helm's hand bringing the pipe to his mouth paused; then he clamped it between his teeth and struck a match. There was no knock. The door flew open. "I've been expecting you," Helm said. DUSS HANDY stepped into the room.

Slowly his head turned in an arc, his wide-spaced eyes impassively passing Ben Helm on his left, passing Hannah and me sitting on the bed, then after long-drawn moment finding the briefcase on the table. Without a change of expression on unyielding face, he closed the door. "Like I figured, you were sitting on it all along. Flan," he said "This is going to burn you." Hannah's hand tightened In mine. "It's clear he couldn't have shot Dlna Larkin," ihe protested.

"No?" Handy started toward the briefcase. Casually Helm slipped between him and Ihe "You've got it it before either her husband or the killer arrived. The man who lives upstairs found it in the furnace." "So?" Handy's head an inch and rose an inch in an automaton's nod. "Cope!" he sneered. "Looked everywhere but where it was." "You and they both," Helm said.

"1 understand you were with them when they searched." The two men stood facing each other, no more than 20 inches between them, Handy's small- featured face like a mask. Helm sucking his pipe. And Handy said: "Get out of my way." "For what?" Handy took a sideways step to move around Helm, and Helm shifted in the same direction, remaining between Handy and the briefcase. It was like a children'! game, but it was no game. "You're Just a a Handy said.

"And you?" "I work for the D.A. That briefcase goes to his office." Helm shook his head. "I'll take care of it." 'So?" Handy stepped backward, away from the table, away from Helm. "You'U take care of it for the guys you work for. Maybe for the killer.

That's what you're paid for. Well, I work for the county. It goes with me." "No," Helm said placidly. TJANDY'S right hand flipped 11 under hit jacket, to his left armpit. I uttered some sort of sound, a warning or maybe only a growl.

All Helm did was take another pull at his pipe, and then Handy id his gun out. Hannah's nails dug Into my palm. I didn't fiance at her so close beside me. I stared it the revolver In Handy's hand and told myself that Helm was an Idiot. doubted if he carried gun, and If he did It wai toe late for him to go for It.

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