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her nose but did not stop crying. "I told Mama that I shouldn't keep that
gun," she said in hiccupping staccato. "I told her that it was bad luck. I
told her. But it all comes back. It never stops. Never. Thank God for you,"
she said, drawing Ambrose onto her lap. "It's all right, baby. It's all right. I
know you told me it's all right, and it's all right. I know it's all right."
Officer Hawks surveyed us and sighed heavily. "Listen, I can't get any
backup, and I need to go to the emergency room with burglar number
one."
"He's not a burglar!" said Blake heatedly, jumping up from the couch,
then sitting back down after Officer Hawks gave him a look. "This is his
house. He had a key. This is our goddamned stuff! He rented a room from
this guy, and this guy threw him out because he's gay and kept his stuff!"
"Is that what you think?" I asked him. "Really?"
"You're coming, too," Officer Hawks told Lulu. "Can you give her some
kind of sedative?" she asked the paramedics.
I waited for Lulu to object, and when she didn't, I was truly alarmed.
But she did become somewhat catatonic after her shot. She scrambled to
get up, and I helped her. "Just wait, miss, we'll get a wheelchair for you,"
said the paramedic, but Lulu sleepwalked into her bedroom.
"Ma'am, we need to go," said Officer Hawks, raising her voice, but Lulu
paid her no attention.
"Maybe she's getting her insurance card," I suggested.
"Or her other gun," said Blake.
 I heard her tossing things around. A pile of books crashed over. Officer
Hawks made for the bedroom and after a moment led Lulu out by the
arm. Lulu held out a piece of paper to me and said tonelessly, "It's
Wednesday. Take him."
"Take who?" I asked, not understanding.
"Ambrose."
"You need to stay here, sir," Officer Hawks told me, "until I can round
up some detectives to come over here. And meanwhile, don't touch
anything."
"I need to come to the emergency room "
"No!" said Lulu and Officer Hawks at the same time.
"The address is there," Lulu said in a bizarre monotone muffled by the
aftereffects of tears. She pointed to a hand-scrawled annotation. "Hurry.
I'm late."
"You'd better not go anywhere, or I'll arrest you, too," Officer Hawks
warned me as she climbed into the ambulance once their haul was safely
stowed in back.
I held Ambrose and watched the ambulance scream away, lights
flashing.
I looked down and read the much-folded-and-unfolded flyer.


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