On the way back to the newsroom, Claire thought over their conversation. What she realized going up in the elevator was that if Sid the Sneak was a friend of Big Tony, it made no sense for Anthony to have whacked his father"s long-time friend. Wells had played her, she realized. Not just the tidbit about the witness, but also to trick her into revealing her feelings for Anthony.
"Mr. Dudley, may I have a minute with you," Claire said to her boss after she dropped her satchel off at her desk and went to see him.
Dudley, who had been reading a paper and smoking a cigar, took it out of his mouth and used it to point her toward a chair.
"What"s cooking?" he asked.
"I received information from Peter Wells about the D"Agostino murder."
"Sure, Sid the Sneak. I remember. What did you learn?"
