Amateur friends
Shes in Singapore by this time. How could we be having an affair? Well now thats different. You boys go right ahead, only remember Im here now and you cant plant a thing. Well, I get around where the yachtsmen are quite a bit. They get a kick out of me. Some of them feel sorry for me. Poor devils, if they knew how sorry I felt for them, holding their noses on the grindstone and running like hell in the economic treadmill to keep the grindstone turning faster and faster. Anything else? No relation, Ed said. I talked to the doctor who helped with the abortion. Sara wasnt that far along, so it seems no medical procedure was necessary. The recorder? And what do I tell him? Good. Perhaps youd like one of my cigarettes. He picked up a small, highly polished wooden box that may have been made out of rosewood, opened it, and offered it to me. It contained long brown cigarettes. I took one. So did Chanson. He produced a gold lighter from a vest pocket and leaned forward to light my cigarette. Then he lit his own and leaned back in his chair, drew some smoke down into his lungs, and exhaled it. I took a puff of my own. It wasnt bad. Jess sprang from her seat in front of the mirror and came over to me with her arms extended for a hug. Over her shoulder I could see Ted with a champagne bottle and a grin. Katherine was standing beside him. What was the first thing he did? After hed gone, Abby said, Ive always wanted to date a boy like him. Just, you know, out of curiosity. Ewes kept a diary, did you know that? Well, then several cars stopped and... and I took a swing back at him, and he hit me in the stomach and... well, I got sick. I had the wind knocked out of me. Yes, sir. Drake made a note on a pad of paper and said,Hes out in Beverly Hills, coming in on Sunset toward Hollywood, running empty, has completed a call...