"Been waiting long?"
"Long enough to have eaten if I'd thought of it. As it was, all I got was the coffee."
That made the second lie. She had not been here for some time, and she had not come right here from home. He tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the visit to the Upshaw Building was so much a habit that she did not consider it. Still, it was out of her way in coming here.
He wanted to believe her. Maybe that's why cops get cynical - they are lied to so often.
(from "I Hate To Tell His Widow," by Louis L'Amour)
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