“Was that all you wanted to know, Wonder Boy?” MacGraw asked. “Or were there other questions you asked Stevens?”
“That’s all I wanted to know.”
“Didn’t the Captain tell you to lay off the Crosbys?”
Now it was coming.
“He mentioned it.”
“Maybe you think the Captain talks just to hear his own voice?”
I looked from MacGraw to Hartsell and back to MacGraw again.
“I don’t know. Why not ask him?”
“Don’t get tricky, Wonder Boy. We don’t like ‘em tricky, do we, Joe?”
Hartsell made an impatient movement. “For Pete’s sake, let’s get on with it,” he said.