I sat on the blotch. “Oh, you want to talk?”

“I don’t want to, I have to. Peter Zov is the man who murdered Marko.”

I stared at him. “What is this, a hunch?”

“No. A certainty.”

“How come?”

He told me what the man in the chair had said.

XIII

I sat for a minute and chewed on it, squinting at the sun. “If you had told me before we walked in,” I said, “it would have taken just one more bullet.”

“Pfui. Could you have shot him hanging there?”

“No.”