Chapter 12
LEN MACINTOSH was waiting for me when I got back to the hotel. Sitting in the lobby and smoking his sissy cigarettes. He climbed up out of his chair, met me, and said:
"Hi there! I've been waiting."
"Long?" I asked.
He shrugged. "A couple of hours, I guess. I've got to take you in."
"Why you?"
"The beef was outside City limits. It's a County case. Get it?"
I said I understood. I turned around and we went outside and started down the street. He said, in a conversational tone: "You know Kirby and I never did like some people in this town, if you know what I mean."
"I've got an idea."
"I've got a notion this charge would be dropped if you left town. It's just a notion of course."
I said: "That'll be the day."
"Well, hell, what can I do? I get told what to do, you know th
