Jimmie had finished above the ears and was doing the back, so Wolfe’s head was tilted forward.
“Your assumptions?” Cramer asked impatiently.
“Yes. I was saying, the first is that Wallen found something in the car that led him to this shop. It couldn’t have been something he was told, for there was no one to tell him anything. It was some object. I asked you not to challenge me, but I didn’t mean to exclude contradictions. If there are facts that repudiate this assumption, or any other, I want them by all means.”
“We made that one without any help.”
“And it still holds?”
“Yes.”
“Good. That’s fortunate, since all of my assumptions concern that object. The second is that Wallen had it with him when he came here. I can support that with sound—”
“You don’t need to. We made it and we hold it.”
“Very well. That saves time. Not too short back there, Jimmie.”
“No, sir.”