“You’ve been out four months, and during that time you’ve been gambling?”
I nodded.
“You’ve made a heap of dough?”
“Fair,” I said.
“You call twenty grand just fair?”
“It’s not bad.”
He hesitated, then decided to let it go. He’d established that I gambled.
“Is it true you murdered five men in four months?” he suddenly shot out.
Killeano jumped to his feet. “Keep that out of the record,” he exclaimed, his little eyes wide with indignation. “Cain killed those men in self-defence!”
“He killed them!” Flaggerty shouted back. “Think of it! Five men in four months! What a record! Self-defence or not, it’s appalling, and every decent citizen in this country is appalled!”