CHAPTER XIIHOOEY FOR TWO
It is eleven o’clock at night when I pull the car up outside Metts’ house in Palm Springs.
Paulette seemsta have settled down a bit. She has also got the idea that she is goin’ to make a big sap outa me before she is through.
I stuck around at Yuma for a coupla hours because I wanted to telephone through to Metts an’ tell him one or two things so that he wouldn’t be too surprised when I showed up an’ I also had a spot of business to do over the phone with the Mexican authorities at Mexicali an’ another spot with the New York Office. I stuck around there for a bit so’s Paulette could get her hair done, an’ also so that we shouldn’t arrive at Metts’ place at Palm Springs before night because I have got an idea that I don’t want anybody to see Paulette. I am goin’
