The Procane Chronicle (22 page)

Authors: Ross Thomas

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BOOK: The Procane Chronicle

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“What?”

He walked around his desk, picked up a packet of the money, and riffled through it. He looked at the money and then at me.

“You could have kept it all, couldn’t you?”

“Yes.”

“And there would have been no way to trace it?”

“None. Almost none anyway.”

“And you helped steal it?”

I shrugged. “I suppose I helped. At least I didn’t get in the way.”

“But you can’t keep it.”

“No, I can’t keep it.”

“I want to ask why.”

“Go ahead.”

“All right, why can’t you keep it?”

I had to give him some sort of an answer. It wasn’t going to be completely true, but Myron Greene was far too experienced a lawyer to expect the complete truth from anyone.

“You’re not going to believe me,” I said.

He nodded. “I know.”

“But you want to hear it anyway.”

“That’s right.”

“By not keeping the money I may be trying to prove something.”

“What?”

“Something that I don’t believe exists.”

“I’ll ask what again.”

“A good thief.”

Myron Greene thought that over for a moment. “And have you? Proved it, I mean.”

“I don’t know.”

“Yes,” he said, “I can see how you wouldn’t.”

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