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"Dude I found ain't about to testify," he said "So it don't ets"
"That's the idea"
"Tainted," he repeated, savoring the word "Only thing, I supposed to work for Elaine today Mindin' the shop while she checks out this Salvation Army store somebody told her about"
"I'll cover for you"
"I don't know," he said "Lotta stuff you got to know, Bo Horite up sales, how to ain with the customers It ain't so at hied the blow "Didn't I tell you?" he said "You got to work to establish the jab" And he snatched up the photographs and headed for the door
The photos had been taken by a third-year student at Western Reserve, in Cleveland I'd started out with a nauy I reached aave me two other nu machine I looked in my book and called a fellow I knew in Massillon, Ohio Massillon's not exactly next door to Cleveland, but I didn't know anybody closer
I'd o when awith her husband and children Havlicek was the cop in charge, a police lieutenant who liked his work and was good at it We'd hit it off and stayed in touch I'd ed to deflect his periodic invitations to come out to Ohio and hunt deer, but I'd seen him twice in New York He came alone the first time, to attend a police products trade show at the Javits Center, and I met him for lunch and showed hi his wife a year or so later, and Elaine and I took theed theater tickets We joined them for the revival of Carousel at Lincoln Center, but they were on their own for Cats Friendship, Elaine explained, only goes so far
It didn't take long to deterh a contact in the Cleveland Metropolitan PD, that Willia into trouble "He hasn't got a yellow sheet," he reported "Which a County, at any rate Not under that name"
I thanked hiot the name and phone number of his Cleveland contact
"Now, since they never arrested him," he went on, "they sure don't have a photo of hiuy he knoho retired recently, but it turns out he's in Florida for the season So I thought of e student He'll be a lahen he's through Just what the world needs more of"
"You can't have too many lawyers," I said
"That seems to be the Good Lord's view of thebefore they've got nobody left to sue but each other He's a bright young raphy's his hobby"
"How is he at lurking?"
"Lurking? Oh, to get the photo I'd say he's a devious cuss Serve hiood stead in his chosen profession Should I call hi to shoot some deer, will you tell me that?"
"Probably never"
"Never make a hunter out of you, e? You knohat? Why don't you come out here after the season's over and we'll just take a walk in the woods, which is the best part of hunting anyway No guns to carry, and no risk of being mistaken for a twelve-point buck by somebody who had his breakfast out of a flask Of course you don't get to bring ho to pretend to enjoy it"
"Not your favorite meal, eh? Norout and getting it that satisfies a man"
I called him from Elaine's shop to tell hiood job
"I'lad to hear that," he said, "but I'ood pictures, even as a little kid I spoke to hiht, and I'll tell you what pleasesthe work We could ood police officer out of that boy"
"I bet your sister would love to hear that"
"Her and uess I see their point No question but that lawyers get richer than cops Who ever said the world's a fair place?"
"I don't know," I said, "but I swear it wasn't ood thing I don't have to do that too often So to the effect that all of man's probleenerally pretty good at sitting alone in a room, with or without the TV on, but that day I found it a trial For one thing, I wanted to be out on the streets doing so me, and to no purpose They would call up, ask for Elaine, want to knohen she would be co a naister a certain a o somewhere else
A couple of people did come in and browse, but I didn't have to talk price with thee card slips, because none of the One inquired about the price of several paintings-all the prices were clearly marked-and said that she would be back That"I'll call you" to a woether "People who keep shops," Elaine had told irls on dates We know you won't be back"
I had time to read the papers Marty McGraw's colu names, the anonymous author made it clear that the threepoint Many more of us were candidates for his next list, unlessthe light and mended our ways The letter struckWill 2 didn't even believe it himself