Things Slip Through
I manage, “Derek Barton ate Jimmy Jones, then his old man? That’s why we haven’t had to worry about that illegal poker club over at The Stumble Inn these past few months? Jones hasn’t been around to run it because . . . ”
I open my eyes, peer at Gavin, part of me wishing to Heaven I’d never started this but also knowing deep in my gut, now, that it was inevitable. “I bet if I called Henry Chin, Barton’s landlord, he’d just say Barton skipped town and his rent, and he probably wouldn’t even think to mention a small little thing like cleaning up huge bloodstains on the floor after Barton cleared out.”
Gavin nods slowly. “You knew Barton, then?”
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