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.The findinghas to be verified by other medical authorities.We have to move into afull-scale autopsy with laboratory samples of the organs and so on and so on.There has to be a grand jury verdict of death at the hands of person orpersons unknown, and everything will have to be turned over-copies at least-tothe Surety or whatever they call it in France.And-because Billy wasprominent, everybody around here is going to want a piece of the action sothey can get their name in the paper.Trav, the wire services and the networksare going to pick this up, and it is all going to point right at Millis,especially if they can find any trace of a strong sedative when they do thefull-scale autopsy.The funeral is, let's say, indefinitely delayed.What theyare going to do tomorrow at the church is have a memorial service.This is areal mess.Thanks a lot, McGee.""Does it make the estate any bigger?""Maybe by a hundred and fifty thou, which is like saying the swimming pool isbigger if you pee in it.""Millis know yet?""Not yet.I might go over to St.Kitts for a week.Get some rest.""You need it, Frank.""I'll take the wife and kiddies, and my spinning rod.""I want you to think about something."Page 27 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Such as?""Millis is a bright, bright woman.""Granted.""She is careful with money.""I'll buy that too.""It costs a lot less to bring home an urn full of ashes, and if you killedsomebody, it's a lot safer." The silence was so long I thought he had hung up."Frank?""I'm right here.I don't do the courtroom scene but Roger Carp does.I thinkhe could get a lot of mileage out of what you just said.If she still wants usin her corner."I was at the ten-thirty service at United Baptist.The big church was abouthalf full.Had he still been in business, it would have been full.Commercecreates social obligations.Besides, it was the next-to-the-last day of theyear.I was early and I stood outside until Millis arrived.She'd taken the darkblue Continental out of storage and the man driving it seemed to be wearingthe uniform of the security troops at Dias del Sol.One of Decker's pale youngmen went out and escorted her in, holding her in gingerly fashion by theelbow.She wore a tailored black suit, a small hat with a short black veil, nolipstick.The Rev.Dr.Barnell Innerlake conducted the service.He seemed hesitant, asthough working from a revised script.He recounted Billy's humble beginningsand his good works after God blessed his energies with some cash money.So I was standing near the door of the big Continental when the guard held itopen for the widow.She started to duck into the car and then stopped andfaced me.I saw the green tilted glint through the veil."You heard?" she asked in a rusty voice.She was too tough to play games with."Yes, I heard.""Come out to the penthouse, please.""Right away?"She looked at a diamond watch."Noon?""Fine."Away she went, small against the back-seat upholstery.SevenTHE YOUNG security types in the small foyer of Tower Alpha at Dias del Solwore black armbands, and I guessed it was one of the services that went with aduplex penthouse.Or, I suppose, it could have been an expression of a genuinegrief.Billy was a likable man, easy to work for and generous.Millis opened the door as soon as I pressed the bell.She had changed to baggywhite cotton slacks and an orange cotton shirt with long full sleeves.She hadtied her hair back with a piece of orange yarn.She was barefoot.She murmured a greeting, bolted the door and led the way back through the longliving room with the wide glass expanse overlooking the sea, a room done inquiet blues and grays.I followed her down a short broad corridor into a smallroom which was evidently her dressing room.There was a dressing table with a tapestried bench and a mirror encircled byfrosted bulbs.There was a French desk in dark wood with a maroon leather deskset.There was a love seat and two chairs, two walls of sliding doors whichevidently concealed her wardrobe and an arched entrance into a much largerroom with a queensize pedestal bed.She gestured vaguely toward the love seat.I lowered myself into it carefully.It looked fragile.There were no windows.The room was shadowed.The onlylight was that which shone through the arched entrance from the bedroom.She turned the desk chair around and sat, hunching her shoulders and squeezingPage 28 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlher eyes shut in a strange grimace."This isn't easy for me," she said."I'm sorry about Billy.""He was fond of you.And I resented that, because I didn't want anybody tohave any part of him, any part of his attention.""I didn't know you cared.That much."Her wistful smile was upside down."Neither did I.I didn't at first.Ithought I was going to marry Billy because I was looking for a safe haven.Ithought I was going to marry him because it would mean an end to scuffling.But in the end I married him because I loved him.He made me feel loved.Nobody else ever did that.Wanted and loved.""He was very proud of you."She frowned."So I had to keep living up to what he thought I was.Can thatmake you a better person, McGee?""Could happen.If you get into the habit.""I guess.Maybe.Anyway I've been awake since Frank Payne phoned me at fiveand told me somebody had killed Billy.I've been awake and thinking.There's apattern to this.It's a very ugly pattern.Plus too many guesses.""I'm not following you.""I don't expect you to.Not without knowing more.So I have to tell you more.I don't like telling this to anybody.Did you ever hear of Enelio Fortez?"It took a deep dip into memory."Is he the one.about eight years ago.they found pieces of him all over Greater Miami?""Pieces of Nelly as reminders to the others to be careful.They planted thepieces near drug distribution centers.I'd been his live-in chum for threeyears when they killed him.Nelly got too greedy.It happens to people.Hethought he could get away with it, but he couldn't.He just wasn't brightenough.I moved in with him just before I turned twenty.A big fun life.Lotsof money, clothes, champagne, flights to Vegas and the islands.A very niceapartment.I heard later that some of them wanted to waste me too, just incase I'd been part of it.But a man named Arturo Jornalero said he would vouchfor me.And I moved in with Art.Not full-time, like Nelly.Art has a wife andkids.But he's more important than Nelly could ever have became.He's rightnear the top, and it is a seventy-billion-dollar-a-year business.So attwenty-two I'd moved a couple of steps up the ladder.And when I wastwenty-five I woke up.I saw some lines here by any eyes and some lines acrossmy throat, and I knew that when I stopped being some kind of rarity that Artcould show off to his buddies, I would be out on my keister with maybe alittle gift of money to ease the transition.After I walked out and afterArturo located me, he sent some of his guys to talk me back home, but I wasn'thaving any.After a couple of phone calls he gave up.I had answered an ad inthe local paper, and I wanted somebody who couldn't toss me out whenever hefelt like it, so I took dead aim at my new boss, Billy Ingraham.I wanted alonger future than I was going to get in Miami.I have to tell you all this soyou'll understand the rest of it.""I wondered about you, Millis.You seemed a little out of focus.""You've got a good eye.You made me nervous.Anyway, right after the identityof the girl from Peru broke in the news, Arturo got in touch with me.He saidit was very important, and it had nothing to do with our previous friendship.That's what he called it.Friendship.So I sneaked off to a motel room and methim there [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.The findinghas to be verified by other medical authorities.We have to move into afull-scale autopsy with laboratory samples of the organs and so on and so on.There has to be a grand jury verdict of death at the hands of person orpersons unknown, and everything will have to be turned over-copies at least-tothe Surety or whatever they call it in France.And-because Billy wasprominent, everybody around here is going to want a piece of the action sothey can get their name in the paper.Trav, the wire services and the networksare going to pick this up, and it is all going to point right at Millis,especially if they can find any trace of a strong sedative when they do thefull-scale autopsy.The funeral is, let's say, indefinitely delayed.What theyare going to do tomorrow at the church is have a memorial service.This is areal mess.Thanks a lot, McGee.""Does it make the estate any bigger?""Maybe by a hundred and fifty thou, which is like saying the swimming pool isbigger if you pee in it.""Millis know yet?""Not yet.I might go over to St.Kitts for a week.Get some rest.""You need it, Frank.""I'll take the wife and kiddies, and my spinning rod.""I want you to think about something."Page 27 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Such as?""Millis is a bright, bright woman.""Granted.""She is careful with money.""I'll buy that too.""It costs a lot less to bring home an urn full of ashes, and if you killedsomebody, it's a lot safer." The silence was so long I thought he had hung up."Frank?""I'm right here.I don't do the courtroom scene but Roger Carp does.I thinkhe could get a lot of mileage out of what you just said.If she still wants usin her corner."I was at the ten-thirty service at United Baptist.The big church was abouthalf full.Had he still been in business, it would have been full.Commercecreates social obligations.Besides, it was the next-to-the-last day of theyear.I was early and I stood outside until Millis arrived.She'd taken the darkblue Continental out of storage and the man driving it seemed to be wearingthe uniform of the security troops at Dias del Sol.One of Decker's pale youngmen went out and escorted her in, holding her in gingerly fashion by theelbow.She wore a tailored black suit, a small hat with a short black veil, nolipstick.The Rev.Dr.Barnell Innerlake conducted the service.He seemed hesitant, asthough working from a revised script.He recounted Billy's humble beginningsand his good works after God blessed his energies with some cash money.So I was standing near the door of the big Continental when the guard held itopen for the widow.She started to duck into the car and then stopped andfaced me.I saw the green tilted glint through the veil."You heard?" she asked in a rusty voice.She was too tough to play games with."Yes, I heard.""Come out to the penthouse, please.""Right away?"She looked at a diamond watch."Noon?""Fine."Away she went, small against the back-seat upholstery.SevenTHE YOUNG security types in the small foyer of Tower Alpha at Dias del Solwore black armbands, and I guessed it was one of the services that went with aduplex penthouse.Or, I suppose, it could have been an expression of a genuinegrief.Billy was a likable man, easy to work for and generous.Millis opened the door as soon as I pressed the bell.She had changed to baggywhite cotton slacks and an orange cotton shirt with long full sleeves.She hadtied her hair back with a piece of orange yarn.She was barefoot.She murmured a greeting, bolted the door and led the way back through the longliving room with the wide glass expanse overlooking the sea, a room done inquiet blues and grays.I followed her down a short broad corridor into a smallroom which was evidently her dressing room.There was a dressing table with a tapestried bench and a mirror encircled byfrosted bulbs.There was a French desk in dark wood with a maroon leather deskset.There was a love seat and two chairs, two walls of sliding doors whichevidently concealed her wardrobe and an arched entrance into a much largerroom with a queensize pedestal bed.She gestured vaguely toward the love seat.I lowered myself into it carefully.It looked fragile.There were no windows.The room was shadowed.The onlylight was that which shone through the arched entrance from the bedroom.She turned the desk chair around and sat, hunching her shoulders and squeezingPage 28 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlher eyes shut in a strange grimace."This isn't easy for me," she said."I'm sorry about Billy.""He was fond of you.And I resented that, because I didn't want anybody tohave any part of him, any part of his attention.""I didn't know you cared.That much."Her wistful smile was upside down."Neither did I.I didn't at first.Ithought I was going to marry Billy because I was looking for a safe haven.Ithought I was going to marry him because it would mean an end to scuffling.But in the end I married him because I loved him.He made me feel loved.Nobody else ever did that.Wanted and loved.""He was very proud of you."She frowned."So I had to keep living up to what he thought I was.Can thatmake you a better person, McGee?""Could happen.If you get into the habit.""I guess.Maybe.Anyway I've been awake since Frank Payne phoned me at fiveand told me somebody had killed Billy.I've been awake and thinking.There's apattern to this.It's a very ugly pattern.Plus too many guesses.""I'm not following you.""I don't expect you to.Not without knowing more.So I have to tell you more.I don't like telling this to anybody.Did you ever hear of Enelio Fortez?"It took a deep dip into memory."Is he the one.about eight years ago.they found pieces of him all over Greater Miami?""Pieces of Nelly as reminders to the others to be careful.They planted thepieces near drug distribution centers.I'd been his live-in chum for threeyears when they killed him.Nelly got too greedy.It happens to people.Hethought he could get away with it, but he couldn't.He just wasn't brightenough.I moved in with him just before I turned twenty.A big fun life.Lotsof money, clothes, champagne, flights to Vegas and the islands.A very niceapartment.I heard later that some of them wanted to waste me too, just incase I'd been part of it.But a man named Arturo Jornalero said he would vouchfor me.And I moved in with Art.Not full-time, like Nelly.Art has a wife andkids.But he's more important than Nelly could ever have became.He's rightnear the top, and it is a seventy-billion-dollar-a-year business.So attwenty-two I'd moved a couple of steps up the ladder.And when I wastwenty-five I woke up.I saw some lines here by any eyes and some lines acrossmy throat, and I knew that when I stopped being some kind of rarity that Artcould show off to his buddies, I would be out on my keister with maybe alittle gift of money to ease the transition.After I walked out and afterArturo located me, he sent some of his guys to talk me back home, but I wasn'thaving any.After a couple of phone calls he gave up.I had answered an ad inthe local paper, and I wanted somebody who couldn't toss me out whenever hefelt like it, so I took dead aim at my new boss, Billy Ingraham.I wanted alonger future than I was going to get in Miami.I have to tell you all this soyou'll understand the rest of it.""I wondered about you, Millis.You seemed a little out of focus.""You've got a good eye.You made me nervous.Anyway, right after the identityof the girl from Peru broke in the news, Arturo got in touch with me.He saidit was very important, and it had nothing to do with our previous friendship.That's what he called it.Friendship.So I sneaked off to a motel room and methim there [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]