Berg said: “How come?”
Shakkey said: “Listen, here’s the story. Scansci an’ Calsimo are gonna meet, straighten things out, go in together. Well, somebody don’t like that. I reckon that somebody was Clovis Scansci. So she tells you a hard-luck story… Calsimo’s gonna snatch her. So you fix Calsimo. I don’t know what there was on between you an’ Clovis Scansci but she’s a tough egg, that one. I know her. Maybe she let Paul hear about it somehow when he came back. Maybe that’s why he got funny with you tonight. Maybe he told you he was gonna have you took for a ride, hey?”
Berg said: “Yeah…something like that.”
Shakkey nodded. “So you give it to him first,” he said. “It’s a pretty good position for somebody.”
Berg said: “Yeah? Who?”
Shakkey said: “I could make a coupla guesses. It’s a pre
