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Galishoff came on the line "Hello, Kinsey? Lee Galishoff I hope I didn’t catch you at a bad ti ht inches from my ear Telephone voices are deceptive From hisand overweight, but a photograph I’d spotted in a Las Vegas newspaper showed a slim, handsome fellow in his forties with a shock of blond hair

"This is fine," I said "How are you?"

"Good until now Tyrone Patty’s back in county jail, awaiting trial on a triple e"

"What’s the story this time?"

"He and a pal of his hit a liquor store up here and the clerk and two customers were shot to death"

"Really I hadn’t heard that"

"Well, there’s no reason you would The problem is, he’s pissed at us, claims his life was ruined the day he was put away You kno it goes Wife divorced hiets out and can’t find a job Naturally, he took to ar anybody in his way All our fault, of course"

"Hey, sure Why not?"

"Yeah, well, here’s the bottoo, he approached another in the two of us, plus the DA and the judge who sentenced hi at my chest as I squinted into the receiver "Us, as inthrough puberty

"You got it Fortunately, the other inht to us The DA put a couple of undercover cops on it, posing as potential hitthat would chill your blood"

"Are you serious?"

"It gets worse," he said "Froht have talked to We’re concerned he’s been in touch with other people whosteps we don’t know about We’ve notified the press, hoping toplaced under around-the-clock arht I better pass the information on to you You’d be smart to contact the Santa Teresa police to see about protection for yourself"