“I know.”
“So does he know. And all the time he is laughing in his sleeve at us. He knows that we know—and he doesn’t care a rap.”
“That is true enough.”
“And why? Simply because he knows also that we cannot establish evidence that would be upheld in a court of law. That has been tried. Jimmy has ceased to be Jimmy and has become Dinwiddie. His position from that point is unassailable.”
“I guess you are right about that.”
“But, Chick, there never yet was a fortress so impregnable that it did not have its one weak spot; just as the speed of a fleet is determined by the slowest vessel in it, so is the strength of a fort established by its weakest spot; and so is the invulnerability of evidence made vulnerable.”
“And you look upon this woman, Juno, as being the weak spot in the armor?”
“Precisely.”
“Have you ever seen her?”