Chapter 7
KIRBY called me at ten the next morning. I answered the phone and he said: "This is John Kirby. How about coming down for a little while?"
I said I could, as soon as I was dressed. He said that was fine and hung up, and Lester rolled over in bed and groaned:
"Who was that?"
I said: "The Chief, is all. Your Mrs. Heber has gone down and lodged a complaint against you."
He came wide awake. He sat up in bed and said:
"What!"
"Sure! You might have known. You can't get tough with a woman in this town and get away with it."
"But Shean! I didn't do anything."
"How in hell do you know you didn't? You were so stiff when you got home I could have propped you up against the wall. That happens lots of times, Lester. A man will do things and not remember them."
I kept this up while I
