"Henry — you couldn't possibly have some doddering notion in your dear gray head that I really did blow Gabriel's horn?"
"Off the record," Fernack said, relentless, "I was hoping against hope that the tip was a phony. But 1 might have known it would be like this one of these days."
"You've known people to try to frame me before."
"I've never seen such a cold case as this against you before."
Simon flipped ashes from the shortening end of his cigarette.
"There was a tip-off, of course," he said languidly. "How did you get it?"
"On the telephone."
"Man or woman?"
"A man."
"Name and address?"