“Who says there’s a gambling establishment there?” Sergeant Holcomb demanded belligerently.
“I do,” Mason told him. “Now, what are you going to do about it?”
Sergeant Holcomb thought for a minute and said, “I’m going to make it my business to investigate it.”
“All right,” Mason said, “and I’m going to make it my business to investigate your investigation. In the meantime, I’m going to account for every single minute of this young woman’s time on Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening... You closed the office at noon, Virginia?”
“Yes.”
“Where did you go?”
“I went out in the country.”
“For a walk?”
“Yes. My boyfriend and I were doing some...”
Mason said, “All right, I want to go into that with you in private. I think we’ll let Sergeant Holcomb conclude the other angle of his investigation before we...”