From Seattle, maybe? That's a nice suit you're wearing.' "Seattle, I agreed.
"We don't get many strangers here," he said. "It's not on the way to anywhere. What brings you here?'
"I'm looking for goldfish,' I said. "I'm a goldfish buyer. Have another drink I'm paying.'
He grinned. "What did you say your name was?'
"Carmady. And I'm not kidding about the goldfish."
"There's no money in goldfish, is there?"
I held out my arm. "You see this nice suit? Goldfish paid for that. There's new kinds of fish all the time, and people always want to buy something new. Now I heard there was an old guy here with hundreds of fish. Maybe he's got some new ones, and he'd like to sell some of them.