“Yeah,” Dale said. “Maybe. I’d call it ‘High Meadow.’ ”
The next day Bobby paid Tony and Dale Ivanov and Ivanov convinced Tony they should give Bobby and Sara a break and go to the White Pines for dinner and some beers. By eight Dale was tipsy, by nine loud and obnoxious, by ten in his first scuffle with a Jappo-biker that Tony dispatched with a single leg sweep. When the biker returned with two friends, Aaron Holtz threw them all out and the Catcher in the Alfalfa ended up pounding one guy’s head into the pavement while the other two kicked his sides and Ivanov ripped the plug wires from the three Jap bikes and somehow started the Harley—when he’d taken the key Tony had no idea—then waited for Tony to temporarily maim the other two, gain enough time to break contact and retreat.
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