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"Philosophy is thrilling? Like a hemorrhoid. The
man should've got a hobby."

"He did. Philosophy. Since when can you read?"

"You don't need to act so surprised. I been learn-
ing. Got to do something with my ill-gotten gains,
don't I? I thought maybe some learning might come
in handy someday. But mostly what I've learned is
studying don't make you no smarter about people."

I started to agree. I know some pretty dim academ-
ics, people who live in another world. Winger cut me
off. "Enough chit-chat. Here's the gig. This old broad

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name of Maggie Jenn is maybe gonna come see you.
I don't know what's up, but my boss is willing to pay
a shitload of money to find out. This Jenn crone
knows me so I can't get close to her. What I figured
was, why don't I get you to let her hire you, then you
let me know what she's up to and I can take that to
my boss."

Vintage Winger.

"Maggie Jenn?"

"That's the name."

"Seems like it ought to ring a bell. Who is she?"

"You got me. Just some old broad off the Hill."

"The Hill?" I leaned back, just a harried man of
affairs taking a moment out to relax with an old
friend. "I have a case."

"What is it this time? A stray lizard?" She laughed.
Her laughter sounded like geese headed north for the
winter. "Meow, meow."

A few days earlier, I'd gotten stung by an old biddy
who'd hired me to look for her beloved missing Mog-
gie. Never mind the details. It's embarrassing enough
just me knowing. "That's on the street?"