He was testing it.

Detective Bonaventura has since told me, more or less, that Curtis Bellew told four different people four slightly different versions of that two o’clock incident in the first week and that the drift between them is in the file.

But being right about what a man was doing is not the same as being right about what he had done, and I did not hold those apart for four months.

I typed it out and I sent it to Dovie Mwangi that night and I copied Detective Bonaventura in the morning.