Chapter 13 – Framed“You wanna tell me how that got there?” Jesse asked me.
“How should I know Jesse Crane?” I was incensed at first, at what he was implying.
“Didn’t you go nosing around at Mel’s office today? What was that all about?”
“Jesse, I didn’t kill that man and I can’t believe you’d even think such a thing!”
“Now don’t go puttin’ words in my mouth woman. I didn’t say that. I just think it’s an odd coincidence that you’re all worried about being a suspect...don’t you deny it; I know you are, and then I find this and you can’t explain it.”
“Oh, I can explain it alright!”
“Fire away; I’m listening.”
“Clearly, I’ve been framed.”
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I did my best to swear Jesse to secrecy about the prop until I had a little time to figure out who’d have been able to come onto our property und
