CHAPTER 14
"Is there a secret handshake?" I asked. "Monthly meetings?"
We were in the jeep driving back to the parking lot at midnight and I was asking about the Swamp Beasts. I got to sit in front on account of my aversion to pythons.
"No handshake, no meetings," Diego answered from the back seat. "We get together in the Everglades to hunt--unless you count going out for a beer afterward as a meeting."
Alberto was driving. "Let's play twenty questions, you have eighteen left."
"Hey, no fair," I said, "I didn't know we were playing. If I win, do I get a prize?"
Kip whispered something to Diego who said, "Sure, there's a prize."
"Great! Question three: Are you the only members?"
"Definitely not," Alberto said.
"Hmm, it sounds like there are a lot of you. Do you have more than a hun
