“But if the police should start to question me, certain things would come out that I don’t want to have made public.”
“Such as what?”
“That divorce, for instance.”
I said, “Bosh, that divorce was put through in legal form. It’s a matter of public record. The whole set of papers will be on file—”
“I know that,” he said, and squirmed.
“Go ahead. What’s the rest of it?”
“My wife.”
“What about her?”
“Don’t you understand?”
“No. I thought you said you didn’t know where she was.”