"In other words, you'd rather not have me."
"I didn't say that," Wohl said. "Don't put words in my mouth."
Matt looked at him.
"My father thinks you'll make a pretty good cop," Wohl said. " Okay? Who am I to question his judgment?"
"Thank you," Matt said.
Two weeks and two days later, Staff Inspector Peter Wohl received a call from Walter J. Davis, Special Agent in Charge, of the Philadelphia office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mr. Davis told him that he had received word from the assistant special agent in charge (Criminal Affairs) of the Chicago, Illinois, office of the FBI that one Charles Francis Gregory, who was almost certainly the man in the photographs Wohl had shown him, had been found in the trunk of his automobile in Cicero, Illinois, having suffered seven large-caliber pistol wounds to the head and chest, probably from a Colt government model.45 ACP pistol.
Special Agent in Charge Davis said, unofficially, that the Chicago FBI believed Mr. Gregory to be a hit man and that the word was that Mr. Gregory had been shot because he had botched a job he had been hired to do.
"We've got to get together for lunch, Peter," Special Agent in Charge Davis said.
"We really should," Inspector Wohl replied. "Call me."