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uncles."
"You're Choctaw."
"Part of me."
"Where you from?"
"Here. All my life."
"You planted yet?"
The man shifted from one foot to the other. "Now is too late. Next year we gonn a h ave cotton and the year after that, every year we gonna grow cotton."
"I'll tell the sheriff," Carl said" "you're not the man we're looking for. I'm sorry we bothered you."
In the car again, turned around heading north, Gary said, I don't get it. We could have him in the back seat, cuffed.
"You'd have to kill his sister."
All right, what do you tell McMahon? We couldn't find him.
"He'll believe you?"
"Bob will call the sheriff and the sheriff will threaten to jail the snitch for making a false accusation."
"All right, let me ask you something," Gary looking from the road to Carl. You said you made up your mind to add Peyton to your list. You gave him a number, he'd be number four at that time. He's close to getting away, pretty far down the road when you shot him."
"What's the question?"
"Why didn't you let him go? You're letting Joe Tanzi off the hook when he ought to be in prison. Why didn't you give Peyton a break, let him get away?"
"Joe Tanzi was a criminal for a few days and did five years. Peyton Bragg killed four people the day he robbed the bank in Sallisaw with a Thompson sub-machine gun. Two of them were law officers. You don't allow a man like Peyton Bragg to go around with a Thompson sub-machine gun. That's th e d ifference. You have to know," Carl said, "when it's all right to use your gun."
All this to get the hard-headed bullrider to quit thinking every offender was a criminal you ought to shoot ... and every German POW a Kraut you could beat up if you wanted. And if you could.
Carl said, "We'll stop at the Deep Fork camp on the way. I want to introduce you to Jurgen Schrenk.
I've met him.
No you haven't.
*
In the bedroom of the Mayo suite, Carl and Louly were sitting up in bed talking, drinks on the night tables, an ashtray between them on the sheet that covered Carl to his waist while Louly was trying to keep it under her arms. Carl would use his foot to kick the sheet loose and Louly would have gto hang on to it; she did a couple of times and after that let it go. Carl said, "Why're you acting like you're so modest?" Louly said because she was, she was modest. Carl said, "How can you be modest and work at Teddy's? Everywhere you turn you're looking at bare bazooms." Louly said she never showed hers, even though they were way better than most everyone else's. Or unsnapped her teddy.
Carl said, "You called yourself Kitty so it wouldn't be you working there, but you got to see all the monkey business going on. H e l eaned over and she turned to kiss him. They loved to kiss each other, never in a rush. Their faces close he said, "You're my little monkey." the two grinning at each other.
She told him the war bond rally this afternoon went okay, on the steps of the federal courthouse. They had the Andrew Sisters doing 'Any Bonds Today' piped over the PA system. "And then Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge did 'Let Me Off Uptown' and 'Thanks for the Boogie Ride' with an entire 17 piece band behind them. Anita brought me up to the mike with her and we sang that part, 'I like riding in jalopies away from motorcycle coppies, I like riding just like you do aboard the Chattanooga choo-choo. So let me thanks you gates, thank you for the boogie ride it really was great.'"
Carl said, "In your uniform.
Of course.
You snapped your fingers?"
"I had the moves," Louly said, "don't worry.
Carl had to grin. He sure loved this marine.
She asked earlier if he wanted to go to the show, see "Lady in the Dark" with Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland, Louly reading from the ad in the paper, "The thrilling story of a woman' s secret loves based on the internationally famed stage success." Carl said, "What's it about?" Louly said the revealing of a woman' s secret loves. He stared at her now.
"Yeah ...? ` She wasn't that crazy about seein
"You're Choctaw."
"Part of me."
"Where you from?"
"Here. All my life."
"You planted yet?"
The man shifted from one foot to the other. "Now is too late. Next year we gonn a h ave cotton and the year after that, every year we gonna grow cotton."
"I'll tell the sheriff," Carl said" "you're not the man we're looking for. I'm sorry we bothered you."
In the car again, turned around heading north, Gary said, I don't get it. We could have him in the back seat, cuffed.
"You'd have to kill his sister."
All right, what do you tell McMahon? We couldn't find him.
"He'll believe you?"
"Bob will call the sheriff and the sheriff will threaten to jail the snitch for making a false accusation."
"All right, let me ask you something," Gary looking from the road to Carl. You said you made up your mind to add Peyton to your list. You gave him a number, he'd be number four at that time. He's close to getting away, pretty far down the road when you shot him."
"What's the question?"
"Why didn't you let him go? You're letting Joe Tanzi off the hook when he ought to be in prison. Why didn't you give Peyton a break, let him get away?"
"Joe Tanzi was a criminal for a few days and did five years. Peyton Bragg killed four people the day he robbed the bank in Sallisaw with a Thompson sub-machine gun. Two of them were law officers. You don't allow a man like Peyton Bragg to go around with a Thompson sub-machine gun. That's th e d ifference. You have to know," Carl said, "when it's all right to use your gun."
All this to get the hard-headed bullrider to quit thinking every offender was a criminal you ought to shoot ... and every German POW a Kraut you could beat up if you wanted. And if you could.
Carl said, "We'll stop at the Deep Fork camp on the way. I want to introduce you to Jurgen Schrenk.
I've met him.
No you haven't.
*
In the bedroom of the Mayo suite, Carl and Louly were sitting up in bed talking, drinks on the night tables, an ashtray between them on the sheet that covered Carl to his waist while Louly was trying to keep it under her arms. Carl would use his foot to kick the sheet loose and Louly would have gto hang on to it; she did a couple of times and after that let it go. Carl said, "Why're you acting like you're so modest?" Louly said because she was, she was modest. Carl said, "How can you be modest and work at Teddy's? Everywhere you turn you're looking at bare bazooms." Louly said she never showed hers, even though they were way better than most everyone else's. Or unsnapped her teddy.
Carl said, "You called yourself Kitty so it wouldn't be you working there, but you got to see all the monkey business going on. H e l eaned over and she turned to kiss him. They loved to kiss each other, never in a rush. Their faces close he said, "You're my little monkey." the two grinning at each other.
She told him the war bond rally this afternoon went okay, on the steps of the federal courthouse. They had the Andrew Sisters doing 'Any Bonds Today' piped over the PA system. "And then Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge did 'Let Me Off Uptown' and 'Thanks for the Boogie Ride' with an entire 17 piece band behind them. Anita brought me up to the mike with her and we sang that part, 'I like riding in jalopies away from motorcycle coppies, I like riding just like you do aboard the Chattanooga choo-choo. So let me thanks you gates, thank you for the boogie ride it really was great.'"
Carl said, "In your uniform.
Of course.
You snapped your fingers?"
"I had the moves," Louly said, "don't worry.
Carl had to grin. He sure loved this marine.
She asked earlier if he wanted to go to the show, see "Lady in the Dark" with Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland, Louly reading from the ad in the paper, "The thrilling story of a woman' s secret loves based on the internationally famed stage success." Carl said, "What's it about?" Louly said the revealing of a woman' s secret loves. He stared at her now.
"Yeah ...? ` She wasn't that crazy about seein
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