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At noon, Crumley dropped me in front of Roy’s apartment house out at Western and Fifty-fourth Street He examined my face carefully

“What’s your name?”

“I refuse to identify myself”

“You want me to wait?”

“You go on The sooner you walk around the studio and check things out, the better We shouldn’t be seen together, anyway You got my list of checkpoints and the map?”

“Right here” Crumley tapped his brow

“Be there in an hour My grandma’s house Upstairs”

“Good old grandma”

“Crumley?”

“Yeah?”

“I love you”

“It won’t get you into heaven”

“No,” I said “But it got ht”