I drove to his apartment. Parked in a parking spot and waited. Making sure it didn't look like a trap. I saw nothing to make me worry so I went up to ...his door, apartment 34, and knocked. He answered pretty quickly. He was a little shorter and a little stockier. Maybe 6 foot tall to my 6 foot 2. 230 lbs. to my 210. But that didn't matter. I went in.His living room had boxes in it and furniture that was placed around. Probably not in the positions they would end up being in. I told him I wasn't. Nobody jakes. We run out every hit. We want to win every game; think we can too."Philips nodded, but the young reporter lifted an eyebrow and wrinkled his forehead. "You're going to end up last or next to last, so what difference does it make?"I was tempted to tell him about the Vegas line and the attempt to buy one of my players, but I resisted the impulse. The league office had been silent except to say that gambling was involved in both the banning and the suspension and that an. Don't need to be paid attention to. I have my reasons."How 'bout those Kings," he said, waving a glass to get the bartender'sattention as he nodded, half asleep, down by the register. "I thinkthey're gonna go all the way this year." He had that loud, large-voicedway of talking that doesn't need to look at who it's speaking to, thatyou could as well answer with an ape-like grunt, a yeah, a cheer foranother basket -- 15th, 30th? -- sunk."Look," I said. "I don't really follow..."And that got him. It's entertainment in a country that has very few entertaining things.Sweden, Norway, the Baltic States all have their own names for the same thing, and there are drivers who try to race on every track.Well ... I see I've gotten nicely sidetracked.The Duke and Duchess of Seitz Bunau demanded ... well ... something. Their eldest was lying dead in his grave and nobody was proclaiming responsibility or even bragging about it. The only thing anyone knew was the bullet... 311.The British Enfield.
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