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tolerate one another.
Leonard stood up.
Billy stood up. Took a swing at Leonard. Leonard ducked it, grabbed the pistol
off the floor, brought it around and caught Billy upside the head with it.
Billy went down so fast it was like he d stepped in an open manhole.
Leonard leaned over, tapped him again with the little gun, said, You just
think Rodney King took a beatin . Wait ll I get through.
Hold up, Leonard, I said. That s enough. Save your strength. We may have to
bury him later. And you don t want to open your wounds.
Leonard took a deep breath, tossed the pistol on the bed.
Take a chair, my man, Leonard said.
Billy got his feet under him, went over and sat down at the little table.
Blood was running from his nostrils, dripping onto his colorful shirt. His
cheeks were bright and finger-marked.
I went in the bathroom, got some toilet paper, stuff you could use to sand
your furniture, gave the wad to Billy.
He pressed it against his nose.
You didn t have to do all that, he said.
No, Leonard said. I didn t have to. But I wanted to. Don t ever pull a gun
on me, motherfucker. I d been in a worse mood, you d have to hire a winch
truck to get that little shooter out of your ass.
I thought she was here, Billy said. I ve spent more money on that bitch
than the Republican party did their last election. I figure I got a right to
know where she is. Me and her had a deal.
You re spending money on her, I said. You don t own her.
That s a matter of opinion. I stayed with her last night. We had a fight. I
wasn t happy with you guys. I didn t want you around, and she said fine, and
then she really pissed me saying she fucked Hap here. That true, Hap?
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I don t usually fuck and tell, but in your case, I ll make an exception. Yes.
And I really, really enjoyed it.
She told me she got herself in some kind of shit with a gangster or
something. She needed money. Lots of it.
So you took advantage of that? I said.
It was a deal she wanted to make, Billy said.
Yeah, Leonard said, and while you had her bent over a barrel, you thought
you d core her ass with your money. Am I right?
I came to her father about a fishing charter, Billy said. He was
recommended. Goddamn, I need more toilet paper.
This time Leonard came back with a wet towel. Billy took it, pressed it
against his nose.
Old man told me what he d charge, and I agreed. Then I met Beatrice. She and
I had a drink. We talked. She said she needed help. She needed money. She
could make it a hell of a fishing trip, and in the meantime I could drop my
line in her little water hole, if you know what I mean. Provided I came up
with lots of money. She wanted too much money. Even for a good-looking ass
like hers.
So you had some ideas? Leonard said.
Yeah. I said, you do what I like. What I say for three days, and we fish too,
I ll pay off the bill.
How much is the bill? I asked.
Seventy-five or eighty thousand. It wasn t an exact figure.
I looked at Leonard. You were actually going to pay her that much?
I figured I ought to fuck her old man too, for that price. Not that I wanted
to, understand me.
You have that kind of money?
Out the ass. That s no money to me.
Are you going to pay her anything now?
I don t know. Probably not.
So why are we hearing all this? I asked.
Because I can t find her and the deal s off. I m giving the old man the money
for the fishing trip. One day, but that s it. She threw me out last night,
wouldn t answer her door this morning. I thought she was here.
What would you care? I said. You were thinking about not paying the money.
Right?
I don t like losing tail to someone else, Billy said. Especially someone
made me look like an asshole. And I ve spent money on her, put her up in that
hotel. She thinks I m going to pay for today, her not letting me in like that,
not answering the door, she can kiss my ass.
No one had to work hard to make you look like an asshole, Leonard said. You
were riding high there, my man. And understand you re getting this from the
smartest nigger in the world.
Smartest nigger in the world? Billy said.
Leonard leaped off the bed, slapped Billy so hard it knocked him off the
chair.
I can say that, Leonard said. You can t. How d you vote last presidential
election?
What? Billy said, afraid to get off the floor.
You heard me. You vote Republican or Democrat? And don t tell me what you
think I want to hear.
Republican.
That saves you one whack, Leonard said.
But it makes me want to hit you, I said. Both of you.
Look, Billy said. I m through with all this. I ll give her father the
money, be on my way.
I don t trust you to give anyone anything, I said. And I think we should
walk over to where Beatrice is, try that knock again.
We spent a little while cleaning Billy up. We even let him take off his shirt
and rinse the blood out. We decided he could have his gun back. Without the
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ammunition.
Leonard said, Don t let me see you pull that again, even if it s just to
scratch your ass. You hear?
I hear, Billy said.
We walked over to the hotel where Beatrice was staying. It was a pretty good
walk, took about thirty minutes.
We tried the phone in the lobby, but she didn t answer. The elevator was
broken. We walked upstairs and Billy showed us the room. He knocked.
No answer.
I knocked and called her name.
No answer.
I beat on the door.
Still no answer.
Billy took a turn hammering on the door. Wake up, you cunt, he said.
I touched his arm gently. Don t say that.
I was kind of expecting a guy to answer in his drawers, Leonard said. I
figured she got rid of both you bastards and got someone else.
A guy in his drawers, huh?
Yep.
Or, if your luck was in, without them.
Don t tease me, Hap.
Are you . . . ? Billy said to Leonard.
Careful, Leonard said.
But you beat me up.
And quite handily, I thought.
Billy dropped his head. It hadn t been his last two days. Lost his girl. Lost
his fish. Got his ass beat by a queer. Several times.
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