For one thing, Ryan hadn’t seen her do anything except unbutton her blouse. It was a dumb thing to do, but it didn’t prove she was the one who had done the attacking. Whatever had happened between her and Mr. Henderson, it had happened in the instrument room, and Ryan said himself that he couldn’t see in there. Mr. Henderson might have tried to molest Liberty. Or Liberty might have come on to him. There was no way of knowing. The other thing in Liberty’s favor was the fact that Ryan wasn’t willing to go to the authorities with what he knew. “It’s my word against hers,” he said when I called him on it. “Everybody knows I don’t like Liberty. They’ll just think I’m trying to get her in trouble. Besides, like you said, I didn’t actually see what happened. I’m sure Mr. Henderson is innocent, but I can’t prove it.” “I know this is changing the subject,” I said, “but why don’t you like Liberty? It’s like you’ve hated her from the second I introduced you.”
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