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office. He sat behind a table with some writing tools on it, but also makeup
pots, which suggested the girls used the place for a dressing room. Overall,
it was as tacky as the rest of the place.
Huh? He looked up, piggy little gray eyes narrowed.
Basic stuff my partner never got around to asking because he thought this job
would be a good joke on me.
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Hullars eyes got narrower. Joke?
Barking Dog Amato. Nobody in the world is going to pay somebody to spy on a
lunatic. Least of all a guy who runs a place like this down here. I can t see
you even knowing Barking Dog.
I don t. Wouldn t know him if he walked in and sank his fangs in me. What s
it to you? You re getting paid.
I m the guy what takes his butt onto the street amongst the slings and
arrows, Hullar. I kind of like to know why I m doing that, and who for. That
way I have a notion what direction to expect trouble from when it comes.
You re not going to see no trouble.
They all tell me that. If there wasn t trouble, though, they wouldn t come to
me in the first place. I don t play blindfolded, Hullar.
He put the report down, looked at me like he was making up his mind whether
to kick my butt or not. Not won the toss.
You got a good rep, Garrett. Why I picked you. I ll take a chance.
I waited. He brooded. The dwarf bartender waited at the door, maybe to see if
the boss would need help. There wasn t much tension, though. I didn t feel
threatened.
I ain t got much here, Garrett. We ain t got much. But were like family. We
take care of each other on account of were all we ve got. This here is like
the last ledge before the fall into the pit.
I couldn t argue that. I kept my opinion to myself. My old mom used to
suggest strongly that I just might learn something if I could manage to keep
my mouth shut long enough to listen. Mom was right, but I didn t get the
message for years and I still forget it far too often.
Somebody works for me comes to me with their trouble, usually I try to lend a
hand. If I can. I do that, maybe they give me a little help when I need it.
Right?
Makes sense. Only in the real world it doesn t work that way very often. One
of your people wants Barking Dog watched?
He eyed me, still taking my measure. You re a cynic. You don t believe in
much. Especially not people. Maybe that s a good thing in your line, kind of
folks you probably have to deal with.
Yeah. I was proud of me. I kept a straight face.
He glanced at the dwarf, got a response I didn t catch.
All right. Here s the way it is, Garrett. Amatos kid works for me. When he
got himself tossed in the Al-Khar, she.
He s got a daughter? You ve heard that one about knocking a guy over with a
feather? That feather would have smashed me like a bug.
Yeah. This Amato, he s a loony. But harmless. You know that. I know that.
Only he s got a habit of naming names. She s scared maybe he named the wrong
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one, some Hill-type asshole what don t got a sense of humor. Maybe the old man
is about to get his ass in deep shit. Girls a little light headed herself, if
you get my drift. But she s family here, and when my people worry, I try to
fix it so they don t. So what I want from you is you should keep an eye on the
old nut, let me know if he s about to step in it so I can yank him out of the
way before he gets run over. Understand?
Yes. And no. Barking Dog with a daughter? How did he ever manage that? A bit
hard to buy.
Yeah? Something about it you dont like? You just say you re out.Ill get
somebody else. I picked you on account of they say you re almost honest. But I
can live without you.
It s just a big chunk to swallow. You don t know Barking Dog. You did, you d
know why. I can t figure him for having a kid.
Crunch. Tell Sas to bring us a couple of beers.
The dwarf left. We didn t talk. After a while a woman came with two beers,
light for me and dark for Hullar. I d seen her with the gamine, muttering with
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