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“I’ll try to remember that.”
FORTY-FOUR
They left the restaurant together.
“Thank you,” she said, “perhaps another time?”
“Another time, what?”
“I’ll have a drink at your place.”
“You anticipate me.”
“It saves time.”
“May I drop you at your place?”
“Assuming you can get a cab. It’s starting to rain, and they don’t like getting wet.”
Stone lifted a hand, and a taxi screeched to a halt.
“Well done,” she said, climbing in. Stone followed her into the cab. She gave the driver her address, and he drove on.
“Your address is in Turtle Bay?”
“Clever of you to figure it out.”
“My house has a view of the rear of your house, across thegarden,” he said, “so don’t bother lowering your blinds.” He told her the number.
“What a coincidence,” she said.
“Do I detect a note of disbelief?”
“Just a tiny one.”
“Let’s see, your predecessor in the house worked for a bank, and she was murdered.”
She turned and looked at him.
“There’s that disbelief again,” he said.
“You read the papers, don’t you?”
“I do, but as it happens, I was a witness to her murder.”
“You were in the house?”
“No, a friend of mine and I were having a drink and waiting for her to start vacuuming her place, when a man walked up behind her and stabbed her with a knife.”
“Wait a minute. You said you were waiting for her to start vacuuming?”
“She did that every day at about the same time, and she preferred doing it naked. She was very beautiful, so we sometimes watched. She seemed to enjoy that.”
“What did you do after the part about the man with the knife?”
“My friend called it in, and we ran over there as fast as we could. But when we arrived, the killer had fled. There was nothing we could do for her. Except catch her killer, which we eventually did.”
“Well, Stone,” she said, “you certainly have a vivid imagination.”
