“Told by whom?”
Mosely looked away. “A friend advised me.”
“Well, Cracker, when Barney advised you to lie on your application, he advised you to commit a felony.”
“What?”
Holly shoved the gun application across the desk. “Look right down at the bottom there. It says, ‘I swear, under penalty of perjury, that all the statements I have made in this application are true.’ Perjury is a serious crime, Cracker; it’ll get you five years, easy. And of course, when you perjured yourself, you violated your parole. And you’ve still got, what, ten, twelve years left on your sentence?”
Mosely’s mouth was working. “I want a lawyer,” he said.
“Nah, you don’t want a lawyer, Cracker. I haven’t read you your rights yet, and you were a cop long enough to know that until I read you your rights, whatever you tell me doesn’t count.”
“What do you want?” Cracker demanded.
“Ah,” Holly said. “Now you’re getting the picture.”
CHAPTER
45
H olly sat and waited, staring at Mosely. Daisy made the noise in her throat again, as if urging him to speak. Mosely looked back and forth between Holly and Daisy.
“Tell me,” he said. “Tell me what you want to know.”
“Everything,” Holly replied.
“Everything? What do you mean, everything?”
“Tell me what you do for a living, Cracker.”
“I’m a security guard. Well, I was, until today.”
“And what did you guard?”
“Palmetto Gardens. It wasn’t a big deal. I just kept out intruders, except we didn’t really have any.”
“How long you been doing this work, Cracker?” she asked.
“Nearly a year.”
“What kind of training did you have?”
“Not much. Barney just told me what to do.”
“And what did he tell you to do?”
“To guard the place—you know, gate duty, patrol duty.”
“When you were on patrol, what did you patrol?”
“The whole place.”
“Give me a rundown on your typical day patrolling,” she said.
“Well, I’d go on shift, say the morning shift. I’d drive around to each house, go up the driveway. Sometimes I’d get out of the car and walk the property. I’d drive to the clubhouse and take a walk around, checking out things.”
“What about the special buildings?”