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  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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