“Why?”
“I want to get it off my mind.”
“So you can get the money back out of your wife’s control?”
“I–I’m not certain of that— Well there’s my mother in-law to consider.”
“What’s she got to do with it?”
“A lot.”
“You mean your wife won’t give it back?”
Belder squirmed around uneasily. “Mrs. Cool, you do have the most disconcerting habit of boring right in. I hadn’t intended to tell you all this.”
“What did you intend to tell me?”
“Simply this. George Nunnely is in a jam. He’s been lifting money from another associate, and this time he wasn’t clever enough, or else the other man was smarter than I was. Anyway, he’s got Nunnely right where he wants him.”