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.Matt saw that there was at least one TV camera crew set up on the golfcourse, on the other side of the fence that separated it from Outlook Avenue.And there were people with still cameras. Park the car, Tom, please, Chief Inspector Coughlin said to his aide, andthen come back and take care of their car, too. He got out of the Oldsmobile and stood in the street, waiting for Matt andPatty to drive up.Staff Inspector Peter Wohl walked up to him. Can't we run those fucking ghouls off, Peter? Coughlin said, nodding towardthe press behind the golf course fence. I wish we could, sir, Wohl said. If you've got a minute, Chief? Matt stopped the Mercury at Coughlin's signal.Patty lowered the window, andCoughlin leaned down to it. Just leave the keys, Matt, he said. Lenihan will park it, and then catchPage 81 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlup with us. He opened Patty's door, and she got out. I'll be with you injust a minute, dear.I gotta talk to a guy. He walked Wohl twenty feet down the sidewalk. Shoot, he said. I gotta get inside.That's Dutch's sister-in-law.Ex-sister-in-law.And his nephew. The commissioner said if I saw you before he did, I should tell you what'sgoing on. He here? Yes, sir, Wohl said. There was an eyewitness, Chief, Miss Louise Dutton,of Channel Nine. The blonde? Coughlin asked. Right, Wohl said. She was with Captain Moffitt at the time of theshooting, he added, evenly. Doing what? I don't know, sir, Wohl said. You don't know? Coughlin asked, on the edge of sarcasm. She said that she was meeting him to get his reaction to people calling theHighway Patrol 'Carlucci's Commandos,' Wohl said. She was very upset, sir,when I got there.She was kneeling over Captain Moffitt, weeping. Where is she? Coughlin asked. She went from the diner to Channel Nine Page 82 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html They didn't take her to the Roundhouse? Coughlin interrupted. Who let hergo? The commissioner.I was a couple of blocks from the Waikiki Diner, andresponded to the call, and I was the first supervisor on the scene, and Icalled him.The commissioner said I should do what had to be done.I didn'tthink sending her to the Roundhouse was the thing to do.So I borrowed twouniforms from the Second District, and sent them with her.I told them to staywith her, to see that she got home safely.Homicide will send somebody to talkto her at her apartment. Coughlin grunted. McGovern say anything to her? he asked. I don't think Mac saw the situation as I did, Chief. Probably just as well, Coughlin said. Mac is not too big on tact.Is thereanything I should be doing? I don't think so, sir.The commissioner knows how close you were to Dutch. Is there.is this going to develop into something awkward, Peter? I hope not, Wohl said. I don't think so. Jesus H.Christ, Coughlin said. This is going to be tough enough onJeannie without it being all over the papers and on the TV that Dutch wasfooling around with some bimbo. I think we can keep that from happening, Chief, Wohl said; and thensurprised himself by adding, She's not a bimbo.I like her.And she seems tounderstand the situation. Coughlin looked at him with his eyebrows raised.Page 83 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html The commissioner asked me to make sure nothing awkward develops, Chief, Wohl said. To find out for sure what Captain Moffitt's relationship with MissDutton was. I went through the academy with Dutch's brother, Coughlin interrupted. Dutch was then, what, sixteen, seventeen, and he was screwing his way throughthe cheerleaders at Northeast High.He never, as long as I knew him, gave hispecker a rest.I've got a damned good idea what his relationship withMiss whatsername? was. Dutton, Chief, Wohl furnished, and then added: We don't know that, Chief. You want to give me odds, Peter? Coughlin asked.Mrs.Patricia Payne and Matthew Payne walked up to them. Patty, do you know Inspector Wohl? Coughlin asked. No, I don't think so, Patricia Payne said, and offered her hand. This ismy son Matt, Inspector.Dutch's nephew.'' I'm very sorry about this, Mrs.Payne, Wohl said. Dutch and I were oldfriends. He offered his hand to Matt Payne. Inspector Wohl, did he say? Matt asked. Staff Inspector Wohl, Coughlin furnished, understanding Matt's surprisethat Wohl, who didn't look much older than Matt, held such a high rank. He'sa very good cop, Matt.He went up very quickly; the brass found out that whenthey gave him a difficult job, they could count on him to handle it. There's something behind that remark, Patricia Payne thought.I wonder what? It was nice to meet you, Mrs.Payne, Matt, Wohl said. I just regret thecircumstances.I've got to get back on the job. Page 84 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlChief Inspector Coughlin nodded, and then turned and took Mrs.PatriciaPayne's arm and led her to Dutch Moffitt's front door.FIVEWith some difficulty, Staff Inspector Peter Wohl extricated his car from thecars jammed together on the streets, driveways, and alleys near the residenceof Captain Richard C.Moffitt.He turned onto Holme Avenue, in the directionof Pennypack Circle.When he was safely into the flow of traffic, he leaned over and took themicrophone from the glove compartment. Isaac Twenty-three, he said into it, and when they came back at him, hesaid he needed a location on Two-Eleven, which was the Second Districtblue-and-white he'd commandeered from Mac McGovern to escort Miss LouiseDutton. I have him out of service at WCBL-TV at Seventeenth and Locust, Inspector, the radio operator finally told him. Thirty-five minutes ago. Thank you, Wohl said, and put the microphone back inside the glovecompartment and slammed the door.There would be time, he decided, to see what the medical examiner had turnedup about the female doer
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