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“I’d like to speak to the detective in charge,” Stone repeated, brushing past the officer and ducking under the police tape.
“Everybody’s on the eighth floor,” the cop called after him.
Stone waved his thanks without looking back. Then he got into the elevator and pressed eight. The doors opened, and he had to duck under more tape. There were a couple of uniforms and a couple of suits in the room. The younger suit walked over to him and blocked his path. “This is a crime scene, pal. Let’s see some ID.”
Stone pointed at the badge on his lapel. “Will that do you?”
“What’s your business here?”
Stone looked him up and down, not uncritically. “I’d like to speak to the detective in charge,” he said.
The young detective took a breath, but the older cop, who was sitting on a sofa, interrupted. “Mr. Barrington, I presume.”
“That’s right.”
“I’m Dan Casey. What can I do for you?” He waved Stone to a seat.
Stone sat down on the sofa. “I thought I might be of help to you.”
“How?”
“Well, I might be the last person to have seen her alive. Except for her killer.”
“Ah, well, then tell me all about it.”
“Mrs. Charles called my office when I was out and spoke to my secretary, who gave me the message.”
“What was the message?”
“Mrs. Charles wanted to see me at her home.”
“When?”
“Pronto. Mrs. Charles didn’t make appointments. She wasaccustomed to people doing her bidding; she didn’t do theirs. I came right over.”
“What time did you arrive?”
“A little after three o’clock, I believe.”
“And what was the subject of the meeting?”
“I represent Mrs. Charles and the trust that pays her stepson, Edwin Jr., an income.”
“And what did you discuss?”
“Come on, Dan, you know all about attorney-client privilege. You know I can’t discuss the content of our discussion. Suffice it to say that we discussed matters of a legal nature.”
“How long did you discuss them?”
“Perhaps fifteen minutes.”
“That’s a pretty short discussion of legal matters. Did you fuck her?”
“I did not. That would have been a violation of the code of ethics of the New York State Bar Association.”
“Did you fuck her anyway?”
“Asked and answered.”
