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. Penelope Detweiler swore that one of them is the guy who shot her andDeZego. Let's talk about Miss Detweiler, Wohl said. She is a known user ofnarcotics, for one thing, and for another, she is Miss Penelope Detweiler,whose father's lawyers your father, for example will counsel her.They willadvise her and they probably should, I'm a little fuzzy about the ethicshere on the problems inherent in bringing these two scum¬bags before a grandjury for an indictment, much less before a jury.If I were her lawyer, I wouldadvise her to tell the grand jury that she's really a little confused aboutwhat ac¬tually happened that day.''Page 390 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html Why would a lawyer tell her that? Matt asked softly. Because, again presuming we can find these two, which I doubt, and presumingwe could get an indictment it isn't really true that any district attorney whocan spell his own name can get an indictment anytime he wants to and get himbefore a jury, then your friend Miss Detweiler would be subject tocross-examination.It would come out that she is addicted to certainnarcotics, which would discredit her tes¬timony, and it would come out thatshe was, tactfully phrased, romantically involved with Mr.DeZego.The presswould have a certain interest in this trial.If I were her lawyer, I wouldsuggest to her that testifying would be quite a strain on her and on herfamily.'' Oh, shit, Matt said. I really fucked this up, didn't I? Yeah, and good intentions don't count, Wohl said. What counts, I'm afraid,is that Commissioner Czernick believes, more than likely correctly, that H.Richard Det¬weiler is going to be furious when he hears about your littleescapade and is going to make his displeasure known to the mayor.When themayor calls him, the commissioner will now be able to say that he's taken careof the matter.You have been relieved out here and assigned to dutiesappropriate to your experience.In other words, in a district, in uniform, andmore than likely in a wagon. Oh, Christ, I'm sorry. So am I, Matt, Wohl said gently. But what you did was stupid.For whatit's worth, you probably should have gone to a district like anybody elsefresh from the Academy.'' Hell, I'll just resign, Matt said. You think you're too good to ride around in a wagon? Wohl asked. No, Matt said, not at all.That's what I expected to do when I got out ofthe Academy.Denny Coughlin made sure I understood what to expect.I mean,under these circumstances.I have fucked up by the numbers, and they'll knowthat at the 12th.I think it would be best all around, that's all, if I justfolded my tent and silently stole away. Today's Thursday, Wohl said. I'll call the captain of the 12th and tellhim you will either report for duty on Mon¬day or resign by then.Think itPage 391 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlover, over the weekend. You don't think I should resign? I don't think you should resign right now, today, Wohl said. I think youwould have made a pretty good cop.I think you were given too great anopportunity to fuck up.But you did fuck up, and you're going to have to makeyour mind up whether or not you want to take your lumps. Matt looked at him. That's all, Officer Payne, Wohl said. You can go. When Payne had left andclosed the door behind him, Wohl went to his coffee machine and poured himselfa cup of coffee. Fuck it, he said suddenly, angrily.He opened a filing cabinet drawer andtook out a bottle of bourbon and liberally laced the coffee with it. If anybody wants any of that, help yourself, he said. Inspector, Captain Sabara said, I didn't want to open my mouth, but a lotof what happened just now went right over my head. Wohl looked at him as if confused. Oh, that's right, he said. You guys don't know about the FBI agents, doyou? Both shook their heads.He told them. So what Payne was really doing at Hahneman Hospital was less playing atdetective than trying to get my chestnuts out of the fire, he concluded
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