Earl and Crow were having breakfast. McCauley had decided to sleep in. They"d been four streets over when the shootings occurred and stayed with Virgil to observe the investigation. The official report called the killings the result of a Chinese gang war over territory. The unofficial report was, “Chinese don"t use shotguns.”
“Didn"t take them long to surface, did it,” said Earl.
Crow adjusted himself in his chair and said, “The paper reports seven killed with eight wounded. Virgil says there were probably over a hundred people in that room. How the hell can two white men carrying shotguns walk into a room full of Chinese and no one sees them?”
Earl replied, “Virgil thinks there were at least three working together. Someone killed the three men who watched the backdoor where the employe
