. so it;s impossible to know for sure whether they just happened to end up under that brush or whether somebody stuck them there . you know , intentionally ."
" waht are you thinking , sam ?"
" let's just say i'm thinking ."
i gave him a moment to go before i said ." cN I CAHNGE THE SUJBJUCT ?"
" YOU USUALLY DON'T ASK ."
" IS VEGAS YOUR KIND OF TOWN ?"{
" SPEND AN HOUR WALKKING THE SCRIPT . I EXPERTED TAWDRY , BUT THE PLACE IS HARMLESS GLITTER , AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE . A TERRIBLE TOWN TO BE A COP , THOUGH - ALL THAT MONEY'S GOT TO BE A MAGNET FOR MAYHEM . EVERYTHING bad on earth has to be for sale there .
" inkew i woul;d see dirt in every crack if i looked down for even a seocnd . i didn't look down . hey , not my problem , right ? wated time tying to find a five buck blackjacke table . ended up at a ten buck table at the venetian ."
" and ?"
" started with a hundred . got up a hundred . lost the second hundred . then i lost the forst hundred and half of a another hundred i didn't plan to lose ."
" how lomng did that take ?"
" twenty minutes . that's when i droppee in on nick paul;son . he's the guy i wanted to meet ."
jaana's hiking companion ." yeah? and ?"
" big fancy office . all glass walls i=side .stupid design . i could watch his secretary ewalk back to tell him i was there . i could watch his eyes get big . watch him look at me to make an appoimntment , i didn't know anything about jaana's disappearance in the grand canyon . she gose and tells him what i said . i thought he might call security on me , but he knew exactly how to get ris of me . he calls me in . we talked ."
" anything ?"
" waht are you thinking , sam ?"
" let's just say i'm thinking ."
i gave him a moment to go before i said ." cN I CAHNGE THE SUJBJUCT ?"
" YOU USUALLY DON'T ASK ."
" IS VEGAS YOUR KIND OF TOWN ?"{
" SPEND AN HOUR WALKKING THE SCRIPT . I EXPERTED TAWDRY , BUT THE PLACE IS HARMLESS GLITTER , AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE . A TERRIBLE TOWN TO BE A COP , THOUGH - ALL THAT MONEY'S GOT TO BE A MAGNET FOR MAYHEM . EVERYTHING bad on earth has to be for sale there .
" inkew i woul;d see dirt in every crack if i looked down for even a seocnd . i didn't look down . hey , not my problem , right ? wated time tying to find a five buck blackjacke table . ended up at a ten buck table at the venetian ."
" and ?"
" started with a hundred . got up a hundred . lost the second hundred . then i lost the forst hundred and half of a another hundred i didn't plan to lose ."
" how lomng did that take ?"
" twenty minutes . that's when i droppee in on nick paul;son . he's the guy i wanted to meet ."
jaana's hiking companion ." yeah? and ?"
" big fancy office . all glass walls i=side .stupid design . i could watch his secretary ewalk back to tell him i was there . i could watch his eyes get big . watch him look at me to make an appoimntment , i didn't know anything about jaana's disappearance in the grand canyon . she gose and tells him what i said . i thought he might call security on me , but he knew exactly how to get ris of me . he calls me in . we talked ."
" anything ?"
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