The Knights of the Cornerstone
“Whitey Sternbottom said. “A fake? Not a chance. They’d grab you, too, and then we’d have another person to spring. Except they’d probably just shoot you and dump your body in the lake out behind the Gas’n’Go. Lymon’s got too much stature for them to kill him without any gain, but you don’t, Cal—no insult intended.”
“None taken,” Calvin said. “But if it really looked like the original, how would they know for sure? They’ve never seen it. I’d deliver the box, wait till they opened it, walk out, and drive back toward Needles with the money in the trunk and Al in the front seat and give you a call on the cell phone. You could be waiting up the way to run interference if you had to.”
“You’d never leave the parking lot,” Taber said. “Forget about any money. And what about Lymon? What if Lymon isn’t there? What the hell did Postum say, that the stakes were higher? That doesn’t mean they’ll have Al along with them. That means they can do what they please.”
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