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“Good, now show me some identification.”
The man complied, drew out a shiny black billfold, removed a business card, and held it out. Milo read it, showed it to me.
Heavy stock, white paper, engraved beautifully.
Protais BumayaSpecial Envoy,Republic of RwandaWest Coast Consulate125 Montgomery Street, Suite 840San Francisco, CA 94104 “Acceptable, sir?” said Bumaya.
“For the time being.”
“Thank you, sir. Might I have your name?”
“Sturgis.”
Perhaps Bumaya was expecting a warmer introduction, becaus...e his smile finally faded. “There’s a place—a tavern up the block. Might we convene there?”
“Yeah,” said Milo. “Let’s convene.”
* The “tavern” was on the opposite side of Broadway, between Fourth and Fifth, a windowless dive named the Seabreeze, with wishfully Tudor trim and a rough, salt-ravaged door that had once passed for English oak. Remnant of the Santa Monica that had existed between the two population waves that built the beachside city: stodgy Midwestern burghers streaming westward for warmth at the turn of the twentieth century, and, seventy years later, left-leaning social activists taking advantage of the best rent control in California.MoreLess
The man complied, drew out a shiny black billfold, removed a business card, and held it out. Milo read it, showed it to me.
Heavy stock, white paper, engraved beautifully.
Protais BumayaSpecial Envoy,Republic of RwandaWest Coast Consulate125 Montgomery Street, Suite 840San Francisco, CA 94104 “Acceptable, sir?” said Bumaya.
“For the time being.”
“Thank you, sir. Might I have your name?”
“Sturgis.”
Perhaps Bumaya was expecting a warmer introduction, becaus...e his smile finally faded. “There’s a place—a tavern up the block. Might we convene there?”
“Yeah,” said Milo. “Let’s convene.”
* The “tavern” was on the opposite side of Broadway, between Fourth and Fifth, a windowless dive named the Seabreeze, with wishfully Tudor trim and a rough, salt-ravaged door that had once passed for English oak. Remnant of the Santa Monica that had existed between the two population waves that built the beachside city: stodgy Midwestern burghers streaming westward for warmth at the turn of the twentieth century, and, seventy years later, left-leaning social activists taking advantage of the best rent control in California.MoreLess
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