You said you could only be reached through this Drake Detective Agency and not to call you unless it was something extremely urgent I thought that could wait until tomorrow. I have a lot of men I can draw on now. Business isnt any too good, and… Im sure you do, I said. Someone had thrown it down on the bank to the north of the house. You wont be solely responsible, Harvey, Slick said. I plan to accompany you. sexy girls in wet clothes Thats almost funny, Jess said. sexy girls in wet clothes I said,Max? and then I said, “Anybody home? This district was being bombarded by robocalling, suggesting everything from Jess as Commie, Jess as lesbian, Jess as drug addict, and that Jesss rich father had been mobbed up. Jess had won before because the man whod held the seat ended up going to prison for taking bribes that unfortunately (for him) were videotaped by the state boys and girls. This time her run was different. Wed never faced a machine like Dorsey’s and anti-incumbency was a formidable platform this time. Sallys family, my sister said. She still has her own place on the third floor, the one we fixed up like a little apartment. Say anything? Mason asked. If youre innocent you have nothing to worry about. Well, this was a .38 caliber. Im certain of it. Well, now lets see. If I had made a mistake in copying down the trip number from the record on the meter, the real trip number that I should have copied would have been... lets see... nine-eighty-one, and that would have been my first trip to the Jonathan Club. Then nine-eighty-two... now,now wait a minute, it would have been nine-eighty-two, my trip to the Jonathan Club. Nine-eighty-three would have been my trip out to the country club, and nine-eighty-four would have been my trip with this woman here. Now, it doesnt seem I could have made a mistake and copied down nine-eighty-two — I mean, it doesn’t seem as though I could have copied nine-sixty-nine when I was trying to write nine-eighty-two. That was half my breakfast! Stone called after her. Devine went back into the house after calling the hospital and checking on Speers and Tapshaw. They were both in the ER and being monitored. Their oxygen levels were still low, and the doctors had decided to keep them in the hospital until they were completely out of danger. Ive got some good weed if youre interested. Chapter 52 I dont know why I went through Georgetown. I didnt even remember getting there. But when I realized where I was I pulled into a gas station on M Street and used a pay phone to call the police. I told whoever answered that they could find a murdered man in the apartment on Mintwood Place. I didnt say who the murdered man was, I didn’t say who I was, but I did say that the dead man’s throat had been cut and then I made myself hang up because I had the feeling that if I didn’t, I would add that the dead man’s throat had been cut from ear to ear and that wasn’t at all the way it hadhappened. Tell me how you got them, and why, and no witticisms..