The Wycherly Woman (2010)
““Is she there?”
“She hasn’t been since early in November—around the time you saw her.”
“You still think I pulled something on her?”
“No. I found out who the blond boy is. Will you help me pin it down?”
He lifted his hands as if to feel for rain. “I dunno. How?”
“Drive down to San Carlos and let me show you a subject.”
“I can’t do it, mister. I lost an hour already—hour-and-a-half.”
“I’m paying for your time.”
“That’s different.”
I went ahead and Gallorini followed me down the highway. Vitamins,... the signs said, Foreign Cars, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Fuchsias, Storage and Moving, Remedial Reading Clinic, Bury Your Loved Ones at Woodland, Rejuvenation, Real Estate. Stanley’s Stereo Shop was a plastic-fronted hole-in-the-wall with records and record-players in the window. It was one of twenty stores in a cheap new commercial development.
We parked in the off-street area. At my suggestion, Gallorini changed jackets with me and took off his peaked cap.MoreLess
“She hasn’t been since early in November—around the time you saw her.”
“You still think I pulled something on her?”
“No. I found out who the blond boy is. Will you help me pin it down?”
He lifted his hands as if to feel for rain. “I dunno. How?”
“Drive down to San Carlos and let me show you a subject.”
“I can’t do it, mister. I lost an hour already—hour-and-a-half.”
“I’m paying for your time.”
“That’s different.”
I went ahead and Gallorini followed me down the highway. Vitamins,... the signs said, Foreign Cars, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Fuchsias, Storage and Moving, Remedial Reading Clinic, Bury Your Loved Ones at Woodland, Rejuvenation, Real Estate. Stanley’s Stereo Shop was a plastic-fronted hole-in-the-wall with records and record-players in the window. It was one of twenty stores in a cheap new commercial development.
We parked in the off-street area. At my suggestion, Gallorini changed jackets with me and took off his peaked cap.MoreLess
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