Two fat ladies obsessions
To my right, I saw the door of the office in back open up. I heardYour turn to deal, Stan. And then I saw Bromfield leaving the office, laughing and saying over his shoulder, Now I dont even have enough money for any meth. Im going home.’ He looked into the face of the smiling but determined reporter from Channel Nosebleed who wanted to know every damn thing in the world. Sure I would. Just think of all the man-hours the department would save. As it is, were having to interview every person whose name is on the list, and in addition, every ex-wife and ex-husband and ex-lover and all the crazy people whose names they gave us. Also, weve had to assign cops toprotect them. God help us if we didnt protect every one of them and then that one turned up dead. Of course, we havent talked to you, yet. Dino handed him a sheet of paper with a lot of names typed on it. These are all the people who are considered candidates for being the lunatic. Do you know any of them? Ellen glanced down at her lap. She looked like she wanted to leap up and run from the room. Im not, Eagle replied. He was sitting up and holding his left shoulder with his right hand. I caught a couple of pellets, I think. Its not your fault. Chapter 47 Of course, Hamilton Burger said, that is exactly what counsel was trying to bring about. The more opportunities he has to cross-examine the prosecutions witnesses, the more opportunities he has for finding some minor inconsistency which can be distorted and magnified into something thatis out of all proportion to its significance. About ten minutes ago. Maybe fifteen. I called Slick and he said you might still be at Vullos. Good guess, but not the other two: Clifford Cox and Terence Hardin. Cliff and Terry, to you. Absolutely. The congresswoman was at her best and Dorsey was at his worst. Im surprised his campaign manager hasnt attempted suicide by now. Realizing I sounded too arrogant, I said, It’s simple. Jess is the serious candidate here. She has a vital interest in making government better and that means saving the parts that work and getting rid of the parts that don’t. But you have to do this carefully, intelligently. The well-being of millions of people is at stake every time a major policy change is made. That’s why you want a person who has respect for her job. Serious respect.’ Solve this thing before they pull our plug. However, I do have one lead for you. I dont think so, Stone said. You keep your jewelry in a bottle? That was because last night I was fine with Sapporo. She killed herself, or so I overheard the police saying. Hanged herself. Completely infatuated, gone, in a swoon. Within the next two or three days hes going to come to me and make a clean breast of the whole thing. Hes going to tell me that hes fallen in love, passionately, violently, wildly, that he knows I’m too good a scout to stand in his way. He’lltell me he’s willing to do the square thing on a property settlement, that he’s perfectly willing to let me save face by going to Reno and getting a Nevada decree. He’ll tell me that if I’ll get my lawyer to meet with his lawyer, they can iron out the property settlement. How come?..