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"I’ht" "What’s it to ive a daht with Tap and I feel bad about that" "You look real tore up"

I shrugged "I know it sounds la hi She stood and stared at me After a while she said, "You want a Co’-Cola? I’ as she picked up a couple of Mason jars and filled them from the hose dispenser under the bar She set mine in front of me "Thanks"

"I hear by the grapevine Royce hired you," she said "What’d he do that for?"

"He’s hoping to have Bailey cleared of the e"

"He’ll have a hell of a ti If Bailey’s innocent like he claiet impulsive under pressure When I talked to him at the jail, he seemed pretty desperate Maybe when Tap showed up, he saay out"

Daisy’s tone was contemptuous "Kid never did have a lick of sense" "So it would see?"

"Not that well He went right to bed A lot of people are over there with Ori"

"I don’t have much use for her," Daisy said "Anybody heard from Bailey?"

"Not as far as I know"

She busied herself behind the bar, running a sinkful of hot soapy water and a second sinkful of rinse water She began to wash Mason jars left over froh the sequence, setting clean jars to drain on a towel to the right "What’d you ith Tap?"

"I was curious what he had to say about Jean Timber lake"

"I heard you askin’ him about the stickups them two pulled"

"I was interested in whether his version would match Bailey’s"

"Did it?"

"More or less," I said I studied her as she worked, wondering why she was suddenly so interested I wasn’t about to mention the 42,000 Tap claiht? Did you recognize the voice?"

"Soht have been someone I’d talked to before, but I couldn’t say for sure There was so queer about the whole conversation," she re?"