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"Why didn’t you get it when the two of you got out?"

"Ah, no Huh-unh The cops prob’ly had their eye on us, waitin’ to see if we’d ured he killed her for sure Me, I don’t know Doesn’t seeht of spent all the money and he choked her in a fit"

"Naw I don’t believe that I thought Pearl said she was knocked up"

"Well, she was, but Bailey wouldn’t kill her for that What’s the point? The money’s all we cared about, and why in hell not? We done jail tiet out and we’re too smart to start throwin’ cash around We laid low After she died, Bailey told me she was the only one knew for sure where it was and she never told He didn’t want to know in case he ever had to take a lie detector test Gone for good by now Or maybe it’s still hid, only nobody knohere"

"Maybe he has it after all Maybe that’s what he’s lived on the whole tione"

"I don’t know I doubt it, but I’d sure like to have h? Honestly"

"The honest truth?" he said, fixing o see a o "way now" He eased off the stool He turned and pointed a finger at ht back at hierated nonchalance of alance at the door to the unisex facility The wo with Shana Tihteen It was nearlyoff the bar with a rag

"Where’d Tap go?" I said when she had worked her way doithin range of ot a phone call and took off"

"Just now?"

"Few o He still owes a couple bucks on that tab"

"I’ll take care of it," I said I laid a five on the bar and waved away any change

She was looking at est bullshitter ever lived" "I gathered as ht have been in trouble soo, but these days he’s a decent familyhis buns"