She met my eyes and clamped her chin shut. I said, “Kick through, Bertha. There s more to this than you realize. He wants me to work on his case. You’ll be in a fix if you and I part company now.”
“We’re not going to part company, lover.”
“That’s what you think.”
She thought things over for a while, and then said, “A thousand dollars.”
“I thought so. Now, I want you to come with me.”
“Where?”
“We’re going to call on Evaline Harris,” I said.
“Oh, that jane.”
“Uh-huh.”
“You could do more with her alone, Donald,”