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And he was calling now because soovernor of Ohio Which would have been noteworthy under any circu back since Archie Griffin, who’d gone to law school after he blew out his knee in his one pro season with the Bengals, was personable and charisrace the statehouse in Coluford had not been in Columbus when a well-placed bullet blew out more than his knee, had not in fact been anywhere in Ohio The man was a hot presidential prospect, and Ioas one of those iford had been in Aroup of students and faculty at Iowa State University Froovernor and his party had driven down to Des Moines, where he’d spent the night at Terrace Hill as the guest of the governor of Iowa At 10:30 the next h school auditorium, and around noon he’d shown up to address a Rotary luncheon Then the gunshot, and the race to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival

"My guy’s white," he told Dot "And short and fat, like the photograph"

"It was a head shot, wasn’t it? I raph, not what happened just now So you couldn’t really tell that he was short Or fat, as far as that goes"

"He was jowly"

"Well"

"And you could certainly tell he hite"

"No argument there The man hite as the ace of clouds"

"Huh?"

"Never uy just yesterday h to spit on hi at is that I could have done the job and been houn or with ht, hell, ait? They’d have been pissed but I’d have been out of here, and instead I’m in the middle of a manhunt for a killer they haven’t identified yet Unless there’s been soot the set on," she said, "and there hasn’t Maybe you should just co of that But when you think what airport security is going to be like around here--"

"No, don’t even try You’ve got a rental, right? You could drive to, I don’t know, Chicago? And catch a flight there"

"Maybe"

"Or just drive all the way Whatever you’re more comfortable with"

"You don’t think they’ll have road blocks set up?"

"I didn’t think of that"

"Of course I didn’t do anything, but the ID’s fake, and just attracting any attention--"

"Is not the greatest idea in the world"

He took a ht about it "You know," he said, "the son of a bitch who did this, they’ll probably catch hi arrest"

"Which will save so a latter-day Jack Ruby to take hi"

"I really kneasn’t"

"Of course not," he said, "because you know I’d never touch anything like this High-profile stuff, it doesn’t h to spend it If the cops don’t kill you your employers will, because it’s not safe to leave you around You knohat I’ht," he said

"And wait for it to blow over"

"Or burn itself out, or so A few days and either they catch the guy or they know he got away fro a rat’s ass about what’s happening in Des Moines"

"And then you can cooes Or not Right noouldn’t bother ive the money back"

"For perhaps the first time in s being equal--"

"Whatever that et a sentence started, though All things being equal, I’d just as soon keep the money And it’s the last job"

"That’s e said," he said, "about the job before this one"

"I know"

"But then this one ca"

"It was a special situation"

"I know"

"You know, if it really bothered you, you should have said soo," he said, "when the radio switched from ‘The Girl with Emphysema’ to ‘This Just In’"

"Ipanema"

"Huh?"

"‘The Girl from Ipanema,’ Keller"

"That’s what I said"

"You said ‘The Girl with Emphysema’"

"Are you sure?"

"Never mind"