“Not the judgment, the property.”

“You mean that I turned over to my wife?”

“Yes.”

“It was a — a considerable amount.”

“I can find out by consulting the court records.”

“Over sixty thousand dollars.”

“You getting along all right with her?”

Bertha Cool’s question evidently probed the end of a raw nerve. Belder jack-knifed himself into a new position. “That’s one of the things that’s bothering me.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Oh, nothing — too much mother-in-law, I guess.”