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“No trouble at all That’s what the guest rooms are for”

“When will I see you?”

“Have you had dinner?”

“No”

“Drop your luggage, freshen up, and hth and Eighty-ninth”

“Sounds great We’re at the tunnel no long should it take me?”

“If you’re quick, half an hour, but you’re a woman”

“Half an hour it is, and don’t ever put a ‘but’ in front of that state up

Gianni put a Knob Creek on the rocks in front of hi, too,” Stone said, pointing at Dino, his partner when he had been an NYPD detective Dino spoke to a couple of people at the front tables, then came back and pulled up a chair His drink had already arrived

“How you doing?” Dino asked

“Not bad You?”

“The sahtful”

“I was just trying to re aboutup my Malibu at the Piper factory”

“Why?”

“I was in a bank in the next town, a place called Orchid Beach, getting a cashier’s check to pay for the airplane, when a bunch of guys wearing masks walked in and stuck the place up”

“Oh yeah, you told uy, didn’t they?”

“Yes A laith a funny na like that”

“Oxenhandler”