on the doorknob, holding the door slightly ajar. Standing tall and erect, he looked at Kinderman with eyes that were clear and cool. 'Yes?' he asked without expression.
'You have the right to remain silent,' Kinderman greeted him, steely gaze locked tight on Karl's. 'If you give up the right to remain silent,' he intoned rapidly in a flat, deadly cadence, 'anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak with an attorney and to have the attorney present during questioning. If you so desire, and cannot afford one, an attorney will be appointed for you without charge prior to questioning. Do you understand each of these rights I've explained to you?'
Birds twittered softly in the branches of the elder tree, and the traffic sounds of M Street came up to them muted like the humming of bees from a distant meadow. Karl's gaze never wavered as he answered, 'Yes.'
'Do you wish to give up the right to remain silent?'
'Yes.'
'Do you wish to give up the right to speak to an attorney and have him present during questioning?'
'Yes.'
'Did you previously state that on April twenty-eighth, the night of the death of Mr. Dennings, you attended a film that was showing at the Crest?'
'Yes.'
'And what time did you enter the theater?'
'I do not remember.'
'You stated previously you attended the six-o'clock showing. Does that help you to remember?'
'Yes. Yes, six-o'clock show. I remember.'
'And you saw the picture---the film---from the beginning?'
'I did.'
'And you left at the film's conclusion?'
'I did.'
'Not before?'
'No, I see entire film.'
'And leaving the theater, you boarded the D. C. Transit bus is front of the theater, debarking at M Street and Wisconsin Avenue at approximately nine-twenty P. M.?'
'Yes.'
'And walked home?'
'I walk home.'
'And were back in this residence at approximately nine-thirty P. M.?'
'I am back here exactly nine-thirty,' Karl answered.
'You're sure.'
'Yes, I look at my watch. I am positive.'
'And you saw the whole film to the very end?'
'Yes, I said that.'
'Your answers are being electronically recorded, Mr. Engstrom. I want you to be absolutely positive.'
'I am positive.'
'You're aware of the altercation between an usher and a drunken patron that happened in the last minutes of the film?'
'Yes.'
'Can you tell me the cause of it?'
'The man, he was drunk and was making disturbance.'
'And what did they do with him finally?'
'Out. They throw him out.'
'There was no such disturbance. Are you also aware that during the course of the six o'clock showing a technical breakdown lasting approximately fifteen minutes caused an interruption in the showing of the film?'
'I am not.'
'You recall that the audience booed?'
'No, nothing. No breakdown.'
''You're sure?'
'There was nothing.'
'There was, as reflected in the log of the projectionist-, showing that the film ended not at eighty-forty that night, but at approximately eight-fifty-five, which would mean that the earliest bus from the theater would put you at M Street and Wisconsin not at nine-twenty, but nine-forty-five, and that therefore the earliest you could be at
