CHAPTER 7NOLAN IS not an easy man to like, and it is especially hard for me to feel any great affection for him. But he did try his best to make amends afterward. After Purcell had been hauled out and rushed off to jail—where the District Attorney was already set to take over—Nolan tried to make up for everything.
He turned to Sally Morris first. He seemed ill at ease. She was deadly white and stricken, and tears flowed in a steady, silent stream.
“Lookahere, Miss Morris,” he said uncomfortably. “You’re gonna think I’m a pretty rough customer, but I hadda do it. I hadda convince the guy! I didn’t have no more notion than the man in the moon what it was that Purcell killed your uncle with; I hadda make him tell me. I didn’t like it, but there wasn’t any way out! An’ nobody saw him come in
