"Janine agreed with this story when I first saw her because she was playing for time. She didn't know who the devil I was and she would have said anything to get rid of me. She wanted time to think. Quite obviously, she doesn't know the Old Man or any of his people. She's somebody Sammy picked up spare and she's probably running around the place trying to find someone who is a friend— a real friend of Sammy's. But she's afraid to talk too much. She's just hanging around playing it off the cuff."
Freeby stubbed out his cigarette end on the packing case top. He said: "That could be. It all matches up."
"It seems to make sense to me," I said. "But by this time they've got something else to worry about. They've got me to worry about. They're wondering what I want with Janine. They guess that
