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Harry Summers was coming across the parking lot straight for me, looking like a
bulldozer on legs.
Chapter Two
HE STOPPED ABOUT five feet short of me and glared, breathing hard. With wavy
black hair and a strong, square jaw, he was matinee-idol handsome, but his hands
were big and he looked as though he wanted to fasten them around my neck.
I was tired of him and he'd already put scuff marks on my suit. My conscience
didn't chafe too much when we locked eyes and I told him to calm down. He was
plenty upset, but soon stopped puffing so much, and the red mottling finally
drained out of his face. He was unaware of what had happened; one minute he was
ready to tear into me, and the next we were walking up and down the parking lot
having a smoke like old friends.
"What was the donnybrook about, Summers?" I asked in a reasonable tone. "You
must know I'm not interested in Marian."
Summers rumbled a curse and wearily leaned against a car, shaking his head. "I
dunno. Something just comes over me when I see her look at another guy. She's
crazy and she only makes me crazy. I wish I'd never met her."
I could sympathize. "You can't pick fights every time she looks."
His face was sour. "She was doing more than that with you. I saw it. Christ, the
whole room saw it."
"Her idea, not mine."
"Then what were you with her for?"
"She didn't give me much of a choice. I'll level with you, Harry, I'm doing a
job for her father and she only came on like gangbusters hoping I'd tell her
about it."
"What's the job?"
"I can't say."
Like a lot of people, he ignored that fine point and pressed on. "Does it have
to do with Marian?"
"Not really. What's she want to hide from her old man?"
He shrugged. "Me, probably."
"Something the matter with you? Pierce seems to think you're okay."
"Only because Marian doesn't let him look too close."
"Got a past, huh?"
Summers nodded. "Cops had me on a couple of assault charges."
What a surprise. "Like what you pulled on me tonight?"
"Yeah. Sorry. Nothing much came of it. I did some time and got out, but the
records are there for anyone to find. Pierce won't think that that's okay."
"Tell him about it and see."
"I don't think it's worth it. Marian's flighty, she'll probably drop me for
someone else after this. She doesn't forgive much of anything when she's
crossed."
She'll have to learn sometime or lose a lot of friends." With her dough, she can
always buy more," he said bitterly.
I didn't gainsay him or offer advice or anything stupid like that. If he wanted
to feel sorry for himself that was his business, doubly so if it had to do with
Marian.
He tossed away his cigarette. It was only half-smoked and continued to smolder
long after it bounced off the sidewalk. "I know I'm out of my class with her.
She's as much as said she goes with me because I did time. I'm not the tough she