you know how they go after all the little details. They want to know where I got the dynamite; I said it was in the house. They say, Okay, but why did you go there? I tell them, To pick up Greta. They say, Oh? With a gun? And I just said, without thinking, What gun?'
'Not saying you didn't have one.'
'Unh-unh, I said, What gun?'
'I 'magine they mean the one I found blown clear out in the yard and give to a policeman. That funny gun.'
'That's what I was afraid might've happened.'
'So you have to explain why a laid-off cop is walking around with a piece, huh? Like what was your intent?'
'I kept it at work, but I never used it on duty.'
'Tell 'em you were taking it home.'
'And just happened to have it,' Chris said and thought about it a moment. 'That's not bad.'
