Harry had been taken to a blue room with a table in the middle and three chairs around the table. From experience Harry knew that the mirror along one wall was one-way glass and that there was a mike fastened under the table so those watching from the outside could hear what he was saying. Probably there was also a camera that Francis had set up to further record the events about to take place. Francis came in with a tape recorder which he placed in the middle of the table. He placed a little mike in front of Harry and another in front of himself. Then Francis switched on the tape recorder and went through rambling off both their names, the date, time, and the rest of the formal stuff that had to be recorded on the tape before the interrogation began. "Now Harry. Is it okay if I call you Harry instead of Mr. Cramer? "Harry's fine." "Now Harry, can you tell me what happened to the money?" "I took a chance and I lost it." "Do you have any chance of getting it back?" "Nope." "There's no way you can get to it at all.?" "Nope." "Give me some help, Harry. I think I can get the guys higher up in the system to make it easier on you." "At my age, what will you do? Give me a softer mattress." "So what happened to the money?" "When I left the jewelry store, I handed it off to this girl." "Now were getting somewhere. What's her name? "I don't know." "Well, how did you contact her?" "In a chat room on the Internet." "Well, how did you know to give the money to her if you had never seen her before?" "She was pushing a baby stroller. She put out her left hand. The money was in my left hand and I handed it to her." "What then?" "I kept moving. I suppose she put it under the fake baby in the stroller, and kept going." "Where was she going?" "I don't know. That's the only time I saw her." "What was your plan?" "She was to walk through the bookstore and exit out the front door. I'd drive around the center and pick her up at the curb." "Well, we found a stroller containing a dummy baby and a torn dress in the bookstore. It looks like she was in a big hurry to change clothes. However, we didn't find the money." "I don't know what to tell you." "Tell me how to find this phantom girl and the money. The bank did a quick check and as a rough estimate, they claim that the clerk handed you over twenty-five thousand dollars." "That would have kept me in donuts the rest of my life." "Very funny, Harry. Now who was the girl and where did she go?" "Don't know and don't know."
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