A City Called July
“It was really doing it today. Even the mossy backs of these ancient St. Andrew Street buildings looked like they were giving up the last ounces of a century’s accumulated moisture to those perpendicular rays. On my way up the sloping alley, I saw weeds trying to make a go of it against the brick wall of the Standard Bank Building. The weeds would be more successful than the bank. It closed down before I was born.
The glare on the pavement made me squint as I opened the outside door to the offic...e. I tried to imagine the street with a rampart of snow over the curbs and ice on the sidewalk I should complain to the janitor about. It didn’t stop the sweat from running down the inside of my shirt. The hall and the stairs to the office were cooler. Old buildings, I thought, as I unlocked my door.
I went through my mail without finding anything of interest, then got busy on the telephone. Pete Staziak couldn’t let me have the key to Larry Geller’s Queen Street office. It wasn’t right for the public cops to go around helping out the private cops even though, as I pointed out to him over the telephone, the private sector had once or twice … “Don’t give me any of that nail polish, Benny.MoreLess
The glare on the pavement made me squint as I opened the outside door to the offic...e. I tried to imagine the street with a rampart of snow over the curbs and ice on the sidewalk I should complain to the janitor about. It didn’t stop the sweat from running down the inside of my shirt. The hall and the stairs to the office were cooler. Old buildings, I thought, as I unlocked my door.
I went through my mail without finding anything of interest, then got busy on the telephone. Pete Staziak couldn’t let me have the key to Larry Geller’s Queen Street office. It wasn’t right for the public cops to go around helping out the private cops even though, as I pointed out to him over the telephone, the private sector had once or twice … “Don’t give me any of that nail polish, Benny.MoreLess
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