I Need a Few Bucks
Hemphill looked around, checking to ensure that he was alone. “What do you mean ‘need to meet’? Our business dealings are over. They’ve been over.”
“Maybe for you they’re over, but not me. I had a cop sitting on my apartment half the damn night. And if it wasn’t a cop, it was worse. I managed to ditch him, but I don’t intend to live the rest of my life this way.”
“You’re imagining things. We didn’t do anything wrong.”
“What do you think I am, stupid? I read the papers, you know. I read about the murder of your wife’s assistant. Is that what this is all about? Did you kill that woman? Did you involve me in a murder?”
“You’re off your rocker. I didn’t do anything but play a gag on someone.”
“Yeah, well how’s this for a gag? I need fifty thousand dollars to get out of
