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He studied the business card "Says he’s your friend in Jersey City"

"Half of that’s true"

"The Jersey City part?"

"I spoke to a journalist who knows his"

"Lot of guys like that," Redered species on that side of the river Vann, it says How’d that turn into Steve?"

"His mother named him Evander," I said, "and he knocked that down to one syllable, and put a second N on it to make it clear that it was his first name"

"Could be Dutch otherwise Van Steffens"

"I can’t be sure of this," I said, "but I think it dropped down to two syllables before one of them disappeared From Evander to Evan"

"Evan Steffens" He nodded slowly "Which doesn’t have far to go to become Even Steven"

"When Jack wrote about it," I said, "he started out by saying he’d call his partner S And he did, just using the single initial all the way through Toward the end, though, he referred to him as ES"

"Which could stand for Even Steven"

"But who uses initials for a nicknaht of that--"

"Yeah, I can see how you got there Okay, let et another drink, because the one is barely aout for me"

By the tione I’d switched from Coke to coffee, and ets sober," Redonna do, turn himself in for the Love Nest Murders?"

"Not necessarily He hasn’t even gotten specific with his sponsor But he wants to find soht"

"How does Steffens find out?"

"They’re both in a world where word gets around," I said " ‘Hey, you hear about High-Low Jack? He’s going up to all the assholes he gave a screwing to years ago, looking to one to Steffens hi ot nothing to worry about, because I’ll be sure to keep your name out of it’ "

"If I’m Steffens, I don’t know that I find that tre"

"No, of course not If Jack ever tells anybody with a badge what he did, how long before they get the rest out of him?"

"Or even if he doesn’t, Matt If it lands onI do is look at his known associates Maybe Steffens’s name comes up, maybe it doesn’t, but if you’re Steffens, how can you knoon’t?"

"One way to make sure"

"And it would have worked if it hadn’t been for Still in a furnished rooets drunk and talks too much Steffens never talked about Jane Street, so why should he talk about High-Low Jack?"

"He wouldn’t"

"No, he’d have gotten aith it, and I’et aith a lot ofthe ones that don’t uess is the case with Gregory Stillman But the other one came first, didn’t it? Sattenstein?"

"And that’s a murder," I said, "but it’ll wind up on sorabbed for the other s But you say he claiot hiets out of prison he’ll be too old toanybody, so it hardly matters As far as the cops don are concerned, he did Sattenstein along with the others, and that case is closed"

"Sattenstein calledI’d asked hih-Low Jack came from, and he didn’t know"

"And then he reet back to hiht of someone who’d know"