21 Nora“Was that when you volunteered to take the lie detector test?” Nora asked Silvia.
“Yes. I thought that as soon as they knew I was telling the truth, they’d stop suspecting me.”
Silvia gave another mournful head shake.
“But it didn’t go like I thought it would. The examiner asked if I’d started the fire. I said I hadn’t. He told me the polygraph machine indicated I was lying.”
Nora growled.
She’d learned from Silvia’s lawyer that the polygraph had shown no sign of deceit.
The examiner had misled Silvia. He’d hoped to trick her into admitting guilt.
Nora rephrased Silvia’s last remark. “He said he thought you weren’t being honest?”
Silvia nodded. “That rattled me. When he asked why I started the fire, I said I couldn’t remember starting it.”
Nora was furious.
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