“Are you working with him?” the officer asked this time straight out. Before, he had skirted around the issue of bringing up the young lady’s possible accomplice, but now he was fed up and needed answers.

“No, I’ve never seen him before!” she said, tossing her hands up and then down into her lap for emphasis. She seemed just about as fed up as the frustrated officers.

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“Don’t believe anything she says, ” he began, “the entire thing was her idea.”