"Kind, virtuous?"

Frank almost laughed from sheer frustration-someone like Jackie, the manager of seedy joints, was kind and virtuous?!

"It doesn't matter! Jackie was killed, and that's a fact!"

A middle-aged woman strode up just then, choking with tears as she snapped, "He was such a good boy, but he's now dead because of that heinous prick!" "Exactly! Jackie's always been our little angel. How could he have attempted murder? It must be slander!"

"We can't believe him at all. And wasn't he the one who wore a knockoff suit?"

"Exactly. You can't trust a word he says!"

"Come to think of it, Lanecorp's probably nothing good. Helen Lane must be despicable just like him, which explains why they're a couple."

"Hah! I already knew that their entire family is a nest of vipers."

other women who knew Jackie jumping in to defend his

sit by and watch them slander Helen, but before he could speak up,

he

start killing us now that we've exposed

knew it! Like we said you can see right

then, as he could neither speak up

her feet-was left wondering if Frank was really trying to humiliate

was when Timothy Clarke, a rotund white-haired old man, limped toward the crowd, flanked

by his side was Harley

"Dad, it's-"

Before the white-suited bridegroom

Clarke could speak, Timothy held up a hand, stopping

havoc at

even been a murder.

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