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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 140 of 307 "Wouldn't that make you the Lone Ranger and me Tonto?" "No, Kemosabi is what Tonto called the Lone Ranger." Note to self, avoid making jokes to Steve unless the obeisance is stingingly obvious. "Oh yeah. How do you even know about the Lone Ranger?" "Tonto fall ill from heap bad sickness when I was ten. Suffer many hours of children's daytime programming." "I need you to stay there, in Reno. We're not done yet." "What?" I was surprised. "We got the address." "She's just completely off the grid. The car she uses is owned by some other woman. And the address where she lives is a sublet. She seems to know how to make arrangements with people that keep her totally invisible." "Steve, if I'm still on that same day rate, I've got no problem staying but I can't see what more help I can be." I stopped packing. "What do you need me to do?" "I need you to follow her. Find out where she goes. Who she meets with. What are her connections? See?" "Look, if the people who hired you just want to get in touch with her so that she can claim some inheritance or something, they can walk right up to her front door. I'm one hundred percent certain the address I gave you is where she lives. I was there." I felt a gnawing panic in my chest. I didn't know why but I wanted to be done with this. |