Dead in the Water (1997) by Stuart - Stone Barrington 03 Woods

Author:Stuart - Stone Barrington 03 Woods [Woods, Stuart - Stone Barrington 03]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-03-18T17:08:21+00:00

Sir Wnston smiled again. While I do not wish to

B! indelicate, reports have reached me that you have been en and Mrs. Manning's beautiful entering leaving very t)'y'acht at, shall we say, odd hours."

Stone tried to appear confused. "I'm sorry, I don't know what this has to do with my representing Mrs,

"Then I will be blunt," Sir Winston said, clearly out Of patience, "I believe that you have been providing services to Mrs. Manning which are above and beyond those which might be construed as legal."

Stone, cornered, decided to tack. "Winston, where did you attend law school, if I might ask?"

Sir Winston pulled himself up to his considerable full height. "I read law at Oxford," he said.

"At Oxford University, in the town of the same name, in England?" Stone asked, sounding surprised.

"The very same."

Then, with such an illustrious legal background, perhaps you could provide me with some precedent for a prosecutor--let alone a minister of justice--indulging in such conjecture with a defense attorney."

"Sir," Sir Winston said, leaning forward, "you are fucking the lady, aren't you?"

"Is that why I was brought here?" Stone demanded. "To indulge your prurient curiosity?" He stood up.

"Sir," he said, "neither my sex life nor hers is your proper concern. Rather, you should be concerned with this extremely strange prosecution of an innocent and bereaved woman for a crime which she could never have committed." He threw down his napkin and left, in the highest dudgeon he could manage.

"You listen to me, Barrington!" Sir Winston called after him, following him through the large office and the reception room into the hallway. "When this trial is over--and maybe even before--you are going to come to a reckoning with me!" His voice echoed down the long hallway.

Stone kept his eyes straight ahead, down the hall and the stairs into the street, expecting to be arrested at any moment. He flagged a cab and dove into it. Not until he was a block away did he allow himself to look back to see if he was being pursued.

CHAPTER

* k. tone directed the taxi out to the coast road and Sir Leslie Hewitt's house, then asked the driver to wait for him, hoping that Hewitt might i have some explanation for the meeting he had just

He knocked at the open door and called out, but no one answered. He walked through the little hoUSe to the rear garden and there found Leslie Hewitt at lunch with Allison Manning. He stopped and stared at both of them; this seemed even weirder than his own lunch with Sir Winston.

"Ah, Stone," Hewitt called out, waving him over. "Come and join us, have some lunch."

Stone sat down. "Thank you, Leslie, but I've already had' lunch What's going on?" he asked Allison as much as Hewitt.

"I thought I might discuss some of the finer points of the case with my... excuse me, our client."

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"It's very kind of you to include me in the possessive pronoun, Leslie, but may I remind you..." He stopped himself. "Allison, do you think I could have a few minutes alone with Leslie?"

"Of course," she said, standing up.

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