CHAPTER 20RAMSEY FELT SICK. He should have expected it, he told himself bitterly, when Stark had begun to suspect the truth—that Jefferson Carr had killed his wife. It was a million dollar shake-down, and he was the goat. The gun with his fingerprints on it, and his letter from Marcia, would be the clubs that Phil Stark would hold over Carr’s head forever—and his head, too. Stark knew the power he held, and Jefferson Carr, in his fear of exposure, knew it, too. Stark would never give the gun and the letter to the police, because they were too valuable to him. And Victor had known all along that Stark would double-cross him, even if Jefferson Carr had not come on the scene. That was why Victor had taken the gun from him before they entered Stark’s office. He, Rackwell Ramsey, was just a bab
