The contact I put him in touch with, the piano player, was with number nine yesterday. He didn’t have a phone so he couldn’t call.””You talked to my father? Gay sex He took his time in the shower and felt more comfortable having someone in the apartment, even someone he didn’t know. Good thing I was here, huh?””Yeah,” Robert said, mussing Toby’s hair. You do anything about Mann?””That’s taken care of. Let Toby be Toby. You came out a lot better than either of them.””I won’t go against another cop if they don’t force me. One ambulance after another took away the remnants of the carnage that had taken place.The headlines of the Post the following morning read:JOHN BROWN GETS HIS MANMike Connell laid the paper across his boss’s chest once he had awakened after three hours of surgery and a night in the recovery room.”You think you’ll keep your job, sir?””Oh, I’m sir, again. “There you go kid. You ain’t Indian.””I shall pay you for your services. Kids shouldn’t have too much money when they start out, they waste it. He’s lucky.””Luck runs out. I’m going to work. Not that time.”Albert grew silent, still gazing off in the distance and through the years.
