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I didn t start this job yesterday, she replied, and
smiled faintly.
He drew in a long breath. I gave Dolores a hard
time. She was deeply religious, but she got on my
nerves. A man who s forsaken religion doesn t like
sermons, he added, laughing bitterly. But she was a
good person. My wife had a heart attack earlier this
year. I hired a nurse to sit with her, when she got home
from the hospital. Unknown to me, the nurse drugged
my wife and left the house to party with her boyfriend.
Dolores made sure I found out. Then she sat with my
wife. They found a lot to talk about. After my wife got
back on her feet, she began to change for the better. I
think it was Dolores s influence. He hung his head. I
was harsh to Dolores the night of the fundraiser. That s
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haunted me, too. I have a young protégé, our newest
senator. He s got a brother who makes me very ner-
vous& He lifted his eyes. Sorry. I keep getting off the
track. I do want you to help me reconnect with my son,
if you can. But that s not why I m here.
Then why are you here, Senator? she asked.
He looked her in the eye. Dolores didn t commit
suicide.
Her heart jumped, but she kept a straight face. She
linked her hands in front of her on the desk and leaned
forward. Why do you think that?
Because once, when I was despondent, I made a
joke about running my car into a tree. She was eloquent
on the subject of suicide. She thought it was the greatest
sin of all. She said that it was an insult to God and it
caused so much grief for people who loved you. He
looked up. I m not an investigator, but I know she was
right-handed. She was shot in the right side of her
body. He shook his head. She wasn t the sort of
person to do that. She hated guns. I m sure she never
owned one. It doesn t feel right.
I couldn t force the assistant medical examiner to
write it up as a homicide. He s near retirement, and it
was your employee who died. He s afraid of you, of
your influence. He knows that you stopped the investi-
gation on the Kilraven case stone-cold.
I didn t, he said unexpectedly, and his mouth tight-
ened. Will Sanders is the new junior senator from
Texas, he continued. He s a nice guy, but his brother
is a small-time hoodlum with some nasty contacts, who
mixes with dangerous people. He s involved in illegal
enterprises. Will can t stop him, but he does try to
protect him. Obviously he thinks Hank knows some-
152 THE MAVERICK
thing about the Kilraven case, and he doesn t want it
discovered.
Alice s blue eyes began to glitter. Murder is a nasty
business, she pointed out. Would you like to know
what was done to Kilraven s wife and three-year-old
daughter? she added. He saw it up close, by accident.
But I have autopsy photos that I ve never shown anyone,
if you d like to see what happened to them.
The senator paled. I would not, he replied. He
stared into space. I m willing for Kilraven to look into
the case. Rick Marquez s colleague was sent to work in
traffic control. I m sorry for that. Will persuaded me to
get her off the case. She s a bulldog when it comes to
homicide investigation, and she stops at nothing to solve
a crime. He looked up. Will s rather forceful in his
way. I let him lead me sometimes. But I don t want
either of us being shown as obstructing a murder inves-
tigation, even one that s seven years old. He s probably
afraid that his brother, Hank, may have knowledge of
the perpetrator and Will s trying to shield him. He s
done that all his life. But he has no idea what the media
would do to him if it ever came out that he d hindered
the discovery of a murderer, especially in a case as
horrific as this.
I ve seen what happens when people conceal
evidence. It s not pretty, Alice said. How can you
help Kilraven?
For one thing, I can smooth the way for Marquez s
colleague. I ll go have a talk with the police commis-
sioner when I leave here. He ll get her reassigned to
Homicide. Here. He scribbled a number on a piece of
paper and handed it to her. That s my private cell
number. I keep two phones on me, but only a few people
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