ีi shook my head and stared at the fish in their big silent tanks thinking about ghosts from a long time ago A train moving through the darkness the sound of shooting a dead clerk on the floor a man who had kept a secret for nineteen years almost kept it
You made one mistake I said slowly Remember a guy called Peeler Mardo
I could see him thinking trying to remember A guy that you knew in Leavenworth prison I said
You told him you had the pearls
I could see he didn't think so He was up here with a friend a guy called Sunset Peeler recognized you and he started thinking about making himself some money But he drank too much and he talked in his sleep A girl heard about it then another girl and a guy that works with her Peeler got his feet burned and he's dead
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