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“They exchanged the information they’d gleaned they day before. They agreed that some facts fit neatly with each other, and they agreed that the “white” man Pastor Brantley thought he saw at the back of St. Mark’s almost certainly was their killer, but they debated who that white man might be or even if he was white at all.
“Okay,” Ron said, “we’re splitting hairs here. We both like the guy at the back of the church. We both agree that he’s fair-skinned. So whatever the hell racial category society assigns this bastard is really beside the point. Agreed?”
Oliver nodded.
“So, I’ll tell you my idea and you tell me yours. Fair?”
“Fair.”
“What Ms. Royce and Ms. Chenier told me was that Jimmy Thunder’s got himself a case of the financial shorts.”
“You trust them?”
“Not at all. But then Art Gilbert, the landscaper, tells me he overhears this character Didi DuPree talking to Thunder about money laundering. This I believe. Because what reason would Gilbert have to lie about it?”
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