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Show 52, Jeffries, Islamorada "I've got to face the consortium!" And there was poor Top Dog slamming the partition and brushing past the eavesdroppers crouched in the passage, grinding his teeth so loud and managing to smile, "Overrides, anyway. . .overrides. . ." Around one when the affair was starting to break up and Diamond had gone upstairs, he went outside to get free of the smoke. Down the back slope to the pond. Where the huge Koi goldfish were going to sleep in the cold. "Who?" Old Griffin coming at him out of the dark, taking the hill all stiff and mechanical, like he didn't have any knees. "Hold on there Pop." Griffin stumbling a step past him reached back to grab his coat. With a perplexed look. "That Diamond. . .you see she's got her mother's good lines. . .she puts me in mind of Lane when I first. . .met her, young, you see, my girl, my beautiful . . .daughter. . ." "Yes the classic-" "Shut up, you don't understand, my complaint is this seduction thing-hell, you're gonna say I don't |
