“You’d have turned Lizette and fed the Russians anything you wanted,” Suzie said.
“That’s off the record,” Ferretti said.
“Is it also off the record that you and your people would have been in position to run the White House?” Bernie said.
Ferretti smiled. First time I’d seen him smile: he had small teeth, nice and even. “Isn’t that on the melodramatic side?” he said. “But information is power. That’s not my fault.”
“Here’s the piece of information I’m interested in,” Suzie said. “Was the president aware of all this?”
“I have no facts on that,” Ferretti said.
“But what do you think?” said Suzie. “Sands was close to him.”
Ferretti nodded. “The president’s totally broken up about his death, from what I hear, bawling his eyes out. He’s got his top speechwriters working on the eulogy.”
“You didn’t answer the question,” Bernie said.
“Here’s your answer,” Ferretti said. “It depends on the definition of the word know.”
Bernie gave him a look and said, “So long.”
“Do I thank you or do you thank me?” Ferretti said.
“Neither feels right,” Bernie said. “But you could do me a favor.” He told him about Sonia. “Get her a new identity, put her somewhere safe.”
“Can do,” said Ferretti. “Especially if there’s some cooperation on Suzie’s end.”
“I can keep your name out of the initial story,” she said. “You’ll be a high-ranking officer.”
“Let’s go with midlevel, if you don’t mind,” said Ferretti.
Bernie and Suzie started toward the door, hand in hand. Was that a wrap? It didn’t feel like a wrap to me.
“Chet?” Bernie said. “What are you doing?”
“He seems to have grabbed my pant leg,” Ferretti said. “I thought he liked me.”
“Chet!” Bernie said, but he wasn’t angry at all, far from it. Had knowing come up in their conversation? I know pretty much all there is to know about Bernie’s voice.
We made tracks. I reached the car way before Bernie and Suzie, but it made no difference. I was back on the shelf. For a while, I did some pawing of the seat backs. Bernie and Suzie leaned against each other, shoulder to shoulder, and ignored me. How could that be? Wasn’t seat-back pawing an annoyance, big time?
I tried to think of something even more annoying. That made my eyelids heavy.
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Spencer Quinn is the author of six previous Chet and Bernie mystery novels: Dog on It, Thereby Hangs a Tail, To Fetch a Thief, The Dog Who Knew Too Much, A Fistful of Collars, and The Sound and the Furry. He lives on Cape Cod with his dogs Audrey and Pearl. When not keeping them out of mischief, he is hard at work on the next Chet and Bernie mystery. Keep up with him—and with Chet and Bernie—by visiting ChetTheDog.com.
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Quinn, Spencer.
Paw and order : a Chet and Bernie mystery / by Spencer Quinn. — First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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1. Dogs—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Fiction. 3. Mystery fiction. 4. Humorous fiction. I. Title.
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