Laster said, “There’s one other highly suspicious circumstance. When Kleinsmidt asked you if you knew where Beegan lived, you told him you didn’t.”

“That’s right. I didn’t.”

“But you’d already been up to the apartment.”

“ He didn’t live there.”

“His girl friend did.”

“That wasn’t what Lieutenant Kleinsmidt asked me.”

“Aren’t you being rather technical?”

“He asked me if I knew where Beegan lived.”

“Well, you knew what he meant.”

“And because I knew where his girl friend lived and didn’t tell Kleinsmidt, you think I was holding out?”