CHAPTER VIIIA FAST ONE I never did like mornin’s after. They get in my hair. You always think about the one you oughta have pulled the night before, the one you didn’t think of. When I wake up the sun is shinin’ through the window curtains an’ I feel that I am goin’ to get movin’ so fast that some of these guys are goin’ to think they was bein’ chased by lightnin’. Me—I’m a patient sorta cuss, but there is a time when you gotta do somethin’ an’ it looks to me like the time is right now. I get up an’ I take a shower an’ drink some coffee. While I am drinkin’ it I am thinkin’ of all the things that I oughta have pulled on Henrietta last night that I never did. Work it out for yourself that this dame is doin’ one of two things. She is either stuck on me so much that she will tell me anythi

