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Show Flying - 166 go on arguing about whether it was Robeson or Robinson that used to make dirty movies. "What I'd like to know," says John Henry, staring at the bubbles in his glass, "is how come Captain Black let me go like that. He had me right by the balls-all Tovar had to do was testify and they could've hung me." "I guess I might as well tell you," says O'Connell. "Me and Tucson John arranged it." "Sure you did," says John Henry. "You just walked into his office and said 'Now look here Black let's not have any more of this horseshit about a courtnartial. '" "I'm serious," says O'Connell. "Ask Thonpson. Captain Black let you go because he was in love." "That's right," says Tnonpson. "You see," says O'Connell, "Black's been screwing this old girl in Paso Robles that he net in a bar a couple days after we got here. He really likes her-buys her presents and all that. Well, it turns out she's an old girl friend of Tucson John's, from xihen he was a cowboy out here, before he went in the army, and she still digs the old man." "She must be about a hundred years old," says John Henry. "About forty-five," says Thompson, "but she doesn't look that old, and Tucson John says she fucks like a mink." "Anyway," says O'Connell, "Tucson John asked her to help and she told Black she'd cut him off if he didn't forget |