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you on the radio, Chief. Dispatcher can’t get through on land lines. He says the first selectman is really pissed that you missed her meeting.’ Rocco groaned and followed the officer out.
    â€˜I was told you were in Washington, Senator Wentworth,’ Norbert muttered in a polite voice far below his usual interview standards.
    â€˜I left last night and drove straight home to Connecticut.’
    â€˜Do I handcuff one of them or both?’ the taller of the state police corporals asked.
    â€˜Hold on and let me sort this out,’ Norbert answered. He struggled to regain his interview dominance. As a consequence, his next question was asked in a manner more harsh than intended. ‘And you were somehow able to open a locked RV door? Once inside, you managed to overpower Morgan?’
    â€˜I knew where the door’s combination was kept. It doesn’t take much strength to murder a sleeping man.’
    â€˜You had the combination? How strange!’ Norbert said as he searched back through his notes. ‘And how did you manage to obtain the combination? I understood that the lock was recently changed and only Lyon and Morgan knew the new setting.’
    â€˜It was quite simple actually. I merely went to where Lyon kept the combination and let myself in,’ Bea said.
    Norbert looked at Lyon. ‘Where Lyon kept the combination? Where he’d written it down for the world to see?’
    â€˜Not hardly everyone,’ Bea said. ‘I’m the only one who knows that Lyon can’t remember things like his own social security number. He records all his important numbers in the same place: on the pull-out shelf at his desk. All manner of our life’s numerology are scribbled on a yellow piece of typewriter paper he scotch-taped there years ago.’
    Lyon blanched in a manner so noticeable that Norbert and his corporals exchanged glances.
    â€˜Is what she says true?’ the state police captain asked Lyon.
    â€˜Well, yes. Bea knows I jot down all sorts of numbers in that particular place.’
    â€˜Including the RV door combination?’
    â€˜Yes.’ He turned to his wife. ‘Nice try, honey, but I really don’t need you to do this for me.’
    â€˜Let’s get back to work. I believe we were discussing your affair with the deceased, Senator Wentworth.’
    â€˜My what?’
    â€˜We were about to develop detailed facts concerning your liaison with Morgan. The affair is a rather important element in this case, since it provides motive. A motive which someone brought to the attention of the state police. It is almost immaterial which one of you was the actual perpetrator, since the existence of the affair provides a possible motive for either or both of you.’
    Bea looked startled. ‘I don’t mean to appear hopelessly naive, but what affair are you referring to?’
    â€˜Were you involved with the deceased?’
    â€˜Captain, Morgan was a very talented man, in some ways a very interesting man. Believe me when I say that a sexual relationship with him would be as likely as my seduction by Rasputin.’
    â€˜Will you please answer the question directly? Were you lovers?’
    â€˜That’s even more preposterous than her killing him,’ Lyon said.
    â€˜We have known him for years,’ Bea said. ‘We met him during the early days of our marriage, when Lyon and Morgan were new instructors at the university.’
    â€˜Then you were good friends with the man?’
    â€˜I won’t say friends,’ Bea replied. ‘I’m not sure anyone was really friends with Morgan. Perhaps longtime acquaintances would be a better term.’
    Captain Norbert sighed. ‘To move on. Can you tell me where you were yesterday and last night, Senator?’
    â€˜I was at a convention of women legislators in Washington DC,’ Bea said. ‘I was at meetings all day yesterday and attended the banquet last night. I