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Show •274 accident and we should go home and forget it." "Watch out," Brady said. "Funny things are happening and I'd better not find out that you two are at the bottom of them. Did you leave this gun on the steps of my police station? Are you trying to make me look stupid?" He set his feet down on the floor with a bang. "Don't play games with me," he said. "Go on now, get out of here. But don't forget what I'm telling you." "Why is Carlo doing this?" Jacob said when we got outside. "He wants to get caught-I understand that." He took off his glasses and wiped them nervously with his handkerchief. "We'll have to watch him carefully," I said. "What good will that do? He's smarter than we are and anyway you can't stop anybody from destroying himself if that's what he wants. I've been a lawyer long enough to learn that." I wheeled us out of the parking lot and took the long way home. The weather after the storm was again brilliant, warm and dry. Flowering plum trees made lavender explosions up and down the streets; crocuses and daffodils burned on the lawns; old men walked about in shirtsleeves and suspenders, "The mind heals itself," I said. "All we have to do is stop him from doing something stupid during a bad spell, and he'll have less and less of them all the time. You'll |
