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"That’s a good policy"

"Huh? Look, wiseass, how’d you pick ert," Keller said "Now it’s your turn"

"Huh?"

"To tell me who I am," Keller said

"How the hell do I knoho you are? Wait a minute Do I know you?"

"That was uess you reh a lot"

"Look," Taggert said, "I’o the way it was supposed to"

"Oh, I think it went exactly the way it was supposed to"

"You’re probably upset that you didn’t get paid, and that’s soet in touch Itoo long Keller kicked hiert screamed

"Cut the crap," Keller said "You set ert said, "hat I got paid to do Pick up this guy, take him here, take hipersonal to it Jesus, you ought to be able to understand that What the hell were you doing in Iowa? You weren’t there on a reliefCross You went there to do a job, and if I didn’t keep telling you ‘Not today, not today,’ you’d have iced that poor sch his lawn"

"Who gives a shit? One word fro his nauess that changes everything You’d have killed hi here, and I did what I did, and that wasn’t personal, either"

"I understand that"

"So what do you want froot twenty thousand dollars in ht you didn’t keep any -arm division of the Little Sisters of the Poor You want money?"

Keller shook his head "We’re both professionals," he said, "and I’ve got nothing against you Like you said, you were just doing a job"

"So what do you want from me?"

"Information"

"Information?"

"I want to knoho you did the job for"

"Jesus," Taggert said "Why don’t you askeasy, like where’s Jiford, you’re pissing on the wrong tree Nobody’s gonna tell me shit like that"

"I don’t care who ordered the hit"

"You don’t? Who are you after, the shooter?"

"No," Keller said "He was just doing his job"

"Like you and me"

"Just like us Except we’re alive, and I have the feeling the shooter’s not"

"I wouldn’t know"

Oh, you’d know, Keller thought But since he didn’t care either way, he didn’t bother to push the point He said, "I don’t care about the shooter, or about the person who co about you as soon as you give me somebody else to care about"

"Like who?"

"Call me Al," Dot said

"Huh?"

"The ave you your orders Your boss"

"Forget it"

Keller touched the et theto tell me," he said "It’s just a question of when"

"So we’ll see who’s got the ert said