“Well, what are we going to do?”
I said, “I’m going to duck out for a while.”
“Are you making any headway on the case?”
“Some.”
She said, “Donald, you get me into more damn trouble. During the time you’ve been with me I’ve got in hot water on every case I’ve tackled.”
“You’re making ten times as much money, too,” I pointed out.
“Well, what of it? You’re too wild. You take too many chances. Money isn’t any good in jail.”
“Is it my fault that a man chooses the particular moment I’m working on a case to bump someone off?”
She couldn’t think of any answer to that so didn’t make any. She looked at me with hard, glittering eyes and said, “I telephoned Elsie to find out how the work was getting on, and she said you’d told her to stop it.”
“That’s right.”