Chapter 71 Im sorry, Enright Harlan said coldly, and turned away. You havent asked about a lawyer yet. Dont wait too long. Well, what did you do? Were not ruling either of those possibilities out. He tried to enlist my support again. I think youll agree, Mr Conrad, that I’m just trying to do my job.’ What? A turtlenecks wrong for this and so is black. Oh, heavens, I wouldnt know about that, Jackson said. In fact, it is with some effort I am recalling the color of her eyes and hair, but the general impression, the overall impression which would be made on a jury would, I should say, be favorable, distinctly so. Now, then, Mason said, when the defendant came in on the afternoon of the third, you had some conversation with her? You are acquainted with the property of the Sylvan Glade Development Company? The area was blocked off, so Devine joined a group of other gawkers in front of the house. A black van waited, presumably for the body. Police were everywhere, keeping people away and securing the crime scene. Yes. He took a moment to process this and form a response.Yes. But only once. I looked at my watch. It was two forty-five.You havent got much time to get to the bank. I dont know why I went through Georgetown. I didnt even remember getting there. But when I realized where I was I pulled into a gas station on M Street and used a pay phone to call the police. I told whoever answered that they could find a murdered man in the apartment on Mintwood Place. I didnt say who the murdered man was, I didn’t say who I was, but I did say that the dead man’s throat had been cut and then I made myself hang up because I had the feeling that if I didn’t, I would add that the dead man’s throat had been cut from ear to ear and that wasn’t at all the way it hadhappened. He had put on weight, although not enough to keep him from bounding around his desk to shake hands with me. His hair still flopped down into his eyes and he still brushed it away with a quick, nervous combing gesture. But the hair was no longer light brown, it was grey, and although his lopsided, awshucks grin had lost none of its charm, it might have become just a bit more mechanical..