“I left the money up here,” I reminded. “We came up to get it.”
“Why don’t you, then?”
I turned to the safe and spun the combination. When I touched the banknotes, I thought to compromise with myself, give him some but not all. Like Jerry, he guessed it.
“All or none, Steve,” he said.
I gave him all.
“That’ll be useful.”
“Wait!” I held him.
“Want it back?”
“No. You’re sitting in on fate, you said,” I went at him. “You know what crimes are going to be committed; then why don’t you stop them?”