went upstairs and five minutes later Mike was dead."
"You're crazy! I—I never saw her before. If she'd—meant anything to me, do you's'pose she'd have turned me up the way she did?"
"A woman's feelings can change."
"So can a man's." He looked at her narrowly; his tone was significant.
"Yeah? Well, don't worry. Big Shot, there's plenty of men that'd be glad to have me."
"Mebbe. But you'd find it pretty hard to find one that could or would pay the price I do. For the amount I spend on you, I could just about have my pick and don't forget it!"
"Why don't you?" she demanded furiously.
“Been too busy to think about it,” he retorted loftily. "But I may not be so busy later on . . . while we're on the subject, I noticed you were mighty chummy with that dick lieutenant in court?"
"Which one?"
"Were you chummy with more than one? I wouldn't be surprised. But I only noticed one. Ben Guarino, the brother of this dame.
"Oh? So you know all about the whole family, eh?"
