I could see that she was uncomfortable with Boland and me, as she kept her conversations to Tina and Kathy. Given her past dealings with men, I unders...tood why that would be the case.I finally asked Kristi, “What do you know about the river pirates?”Her answer was short and curt. “They kill anyone and everyone who is not one of them and steal anything they can, be that on the river or near it.”She had an attitude problem that was directed now at the males of the species. I didn’t care for it. "You couldn't keep your knickers on for your brother then." What's he talking about," she bluffed but I noticed her face was going white."My cars over there, you two get in the back and we'll pop down the station and get this sorted," he said with a big grin."I'm not going anywhere with you," she said."Fine by me little lady, but it'll be worse for you both," he said. "Come with me now and we may be able to work out a deal." Deal, what sort of deal," I said jumping at what may be our only. I took one and gave the other to Abi. She changed back into her men's clothes so that we could go into saloons without raising annoying side issues.On our way out, I asked the hotel desk clerk if he recognized the face I showed him. Yes, he did, but he had not seen the man for over a week. Well, that wasn't much help, but we did know the photos were useful. There were five saloons in Las Vegas, so we went to the nearest one, which was the one attached to the hotel.I talked to the bartender. Right between the dressing stalls and the shower room was a janitor's closet that had a sink, mop bucket, and various cleaning supplies, but over the door was an air vent that looked out into the locker room. Mark figured that if he could get into that closet when the girls were having basketball practice, he could see a whole bunch of naked girls, but the only problem was that there was no escape, because if someone opened the door he was dead! Looking the situation over, he was pretty sure.
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