I said, “All right, if you want to get tough about it, Frank, let’s put the cards right on the table. You go up to Headquarters now and you’re in the worst mess of your life. You’ve arrested me, but you can’t hold me.”
“Says you!”
“For a while,” I said, “but there’s enough evidence now so a lawyer can get me out.”
“I don’t see it,” Sellers said. “You find out that Amelia Jasper has a bullet hole in her thigh — so what?”
I said, “Okay, you haven’t got a case against her yet. But you haven’t got a case against me — not now.”
“The hell I haven’t.”
“No, you haven’t, Frank. The fact that this woman made that statement about the girl putting her hands on my face shows that she knew what happened. She was watching from outside the window.”
“Did the girl put her hands on your face?”
“Yes.”
That gave Sellers something to think about.