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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
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job. The bad news was that he had lost another customer; and the good news was that if he played it right, he might keep the other.
So, he went over to shaking Dim, put one arm around his shoulder, and took his pistol with his hand kerchiefed other, and said; ‘It’s all right, son. Shit happens. No way to avoid that. Sides, he was in his fifties, and the way he’d been drinkin’ he wasn’t gonna last a whole lot longer anyway. Probably did him a favor giving him a quick, painless death. Nuff said about that. Point is what are we gonna do about it now? I can take care of the corpus dilecti, but I want you to promise me one thing. I want you to promise me that you’ll never kill anybody else here at Franks’. I’m not getting’ all preachery moral about the whole thing. I don’t care if you kill ten others. Fucks’re gonna die anyway. I just want you to promise not to do it here. Okay?’
Dim said; ‘You’re givin’ me my gun back, right?’
‘Yes, sir. You steady enough to hold it now.’
‘YES, SIR.’ Dim took his gun and marched out.
Jack figured that the back room was his best option as nobody ever went there. Any good?”