‘Yeah. The cops couldn’t find the slug, and he hadn’t left a clue behind him, but I saw him and Rico on the spot minute or so after the shooting.’
‘His word against yours.’
‘No. I took a shot at the car; smashed the rear window. Olin’s found the car about a mile from the club. If Olin gets either of them, he’l make them talk.’
‘Does he think he can pin it on them?’
‘It’s a cinch if he knew what the motive was,’ Dal as said, looking straight at Purvis.
‘And what’s that?’
‘Zoe slipped up somewhere. Maybe they caught her listening outside the door. I’m not kidding myself they don’t know the set-up now. You should have seen the way the bastards burned her.’
Purvis stroked his nose.
‘We paid her well,’ he said uneasily, ‘but she didn’t deserve that.’
‘That’s pretty white of you,’ Dal as said heatedly. ‘This wouldn’t have happened to her if we had told Olin what we are doing. He’d have had Baird in jail by now.’