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.Demos told Omaha that quite a bit could beabsorbed at 1500 Seaway Boulevard, and some of his tenants could probably getrid of a lot more at the offices where they worked.It wasn't long before they had talked themselves into it.Omaha came back fromJamaica with guarantees, having talked to local hustlers named Little Bamboo,Popeye, Hitler, John Wayne, and so on.At that point it was decided that Walter would be better off if he did notknow any of the details of the smuggling operation, and if Omaha did not knowa thing about his wholesale operation.The first shipments were small.As theygot bigger, Demos brought in his most trusted tenants and it became a cottageindustry, taking the bulk and weighing, measuring, and bagging it for thesmaller wholesalers and the retail trade."We thought we'd be able to avoid getting mixed up with any-excuse theexpression-hoodlums.We didn't see that there was anything terribly sinisterabout it.We were filling a demand at a fair price.We tried to cut our risks.Bringing Carrie here to live was part of the riskcutting.She'd tip me inadvance as to when a shipment would be coming in.I'd get my people ready.Onthose nights she'd be driving one of the little panel trucks from Superiorinstead of her own car.When it was unloaded, checked, and weighed, I'd giveher the money.We'd work all night.I wanted it all out of here by thefollowing morning.Except personal supplies, of course.""When was the last shipment?"He looked dispirited.He nursed his shoulder.He sighed.I could feel a certain satisfaction in having diagnosed him soprecisely.But with satisfaction there was also regret.Demos had been full ofhimself, full of a big-bellied confidence, sure of his place in his world.Butin had come the pale-eyed stranger who had said terrifying things and who hadPage 47 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlsickened him with pain.His world had become fragile all of a sudden.Hisheart was heavy.He was not a bad man, everything considered.He had been ajolly sly man, a manipulator, a greedy chap, overconfident.He had changed."Do you want me to annoy you some more, Wally?""No! No, I was trying to remember exactly.A Tuesday night.That would make itMay fourteenth.Yes.I can't remember the exact time, but it was beforemidnight.""How much was there?""An average shipment.Ten sacks, I think.Forty kilos each.Over eight hundredand fifty pounds.I think I gave her about ninety thousand dollars."He described, by request, the way the money was wrapped.It fit the way it hadbeen packaged when Carrie gave it to me.The adding-machine tape was from hisoffice machine.He handled the money, figuring the commissions to hispeddlers.I pressed him to find out how well he had done.He was evasive.In thebeginning he had plowed everything back into increasing the shipments.Heguessed Jack Omaha was doing the same.They were on a cash-and-carry basiswith each other.When they got to maximum weight coming in, he had started toskim, and he guessed that Omaha had started too.He said he was having aproblem legitimizing the cash, trying to work it out in such a way that hecould apply it to the outstanding mortgages on Fifteen Hundred.He guessedthat probably Jack Omaha was having the same problem, but he hadn't discussedit with him.He started to ask me about Jack Omaha and changed his mind.Hedidn't want to know anything about Omaha.Or Carrie.I asked to see Carrie's apartment.He said that a Miss Joller and a MissDobrovsky, Carrie's sister, had gone through everything and packed up somethings for shipment to New Jersey, and had called Goodwill to come pick up therest.It had been cleaned and the new tenant was moving in tomorrow morning.So there was nothing to see.He said he had a headache and would like to lie down.I told him we had somemore ground to cover first.I asked him what Carrie did with the money.He said he had the impression she took it down to Superior and put it in thesafe.It seemed logical that she would have some safe place to put it."What do you want from me?" he asked again."You have a nice operation, Wally.It's cleaner than some loft or oldwarehouse or a trailer parked in the woods.And you have those nice cleanlittle clerks and bank people doing the pushing and being very careful becausethey don't want to mess up this great life-style you created for them.I don'thave to put you out of business because you're already retired.You've got nosupply, right? Do you know what I'm going to recommend? I'm going to say youshould be our exclusive distributor in Bayside.How about that?"I couldn't detect any genuine enthusiasm in his response."What does.it entail?""We'll guarantee top quality.We'll guarantee no hassling by the law [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Demos told Omaha that quite a bit could beabsorbed at 1500 Seaway Boulevard, and some of his tenants could probably getrid of a lot more at the offices where they worked.It wasn't long before they had talked themselves into it.Omaha came back fromJamaica with guarantees, having talked to local hustlers named Little Bamboo,Popeye, Hitler, John Wayne, and so on.At that point it was decided that Walter would be better off if he did notknow any of the details of the smuggling operation, and if Omaha did not knowa thing about his wholesale operation.The first shipments were small.As theygot bigger, Demos brought in his most trusted tenants and it became a cottageindustry, taking the bulk and weighing, measuring, and bagging it for thesmaller wholesalers and the retail trade."We thought we'd be able to avoid getting mixed up with any-excuse theexpression-hoodlums.We didn't see that there was anything terribly sinisterabout it.We were filling a demand at a fair price.We tried to cut our risks.Bringing Carrie here to live was part of the riskcutting.She'd tip me inadvance as to when a shipment would be coming in.I'd get my people ready.Onthose nights she'd be driving one of the little panel trucks from Superiorinstead of her own car.When it was unloaded, checked, and weighed, I'd giveher the money.We'd work all night.I wanted it all out of here by thefollowing morning.Except personal supplies, of course.""When was the last shipment?"He looked dispirited.He nursed his shoulder.He sighed.I could feel a certain satisfaction in having diagnosed him soprecisely.But with satisfaction there was also regret.Demos had been full ofhimself, full of a big-bellied confidence, sure of his place in his world.Butin had come the pale-eyed stranger who had said terrifying things and who hadPage 47 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlsickened him with pain.His world had become fragile all of a sudden.Hisheart was heavy.He was not a bad man, everything considered.He had been ajolly sly man, a manipulator, a greedy chap, overconfident.He had changed."Do you want me to annoy you some more, Wally?""No! No, I was trying to remember exactly.A Tuesday night.That would make itMay fourteenth.Yes.I can't remember the exact time, but it was beforemidnight.""How much was there?""An average shipment.Ten sacks, I think.Forty kilos each.Over eight hundredand fifty pounds.I think I gave her about ninety thousand dollars."He described, by request, the way the money was wrapped.It fit the way it hadbeen packaged when Carrie gave it to me.The adding-machine tape was from hisoffice machine.He handled the money, figuring the commissions to hispeddlers.I pressed him to find out how well he had done.He was evasive.In thebeginning he had plowed everything back into increasing the shipments.Heguessed Jack Omaha was doing the same.They were on a cash-and-carry basiswith each other.When they got to maximum weight coming in, he had started toskim, and he guessed that Omaha had started too.He said he was having aproblem legitimizing the cash, trying to work it out in such a way that hecould apply it to the outstanding mortgages on Fifteen Hundred.He guessedthat probably Jack Omaha was having the same problem, but he hadn't discussedit with him.He started to ask me about Jack Omaha and changed his mind.Hedidn't want to know anything about Omaha.Or Carrie.I asked to see Carrie's apartment.He said that a Miss Joller and a MissDobrovsky, Carrie's sister, had gone through everything and packed up somethings for shipment to New Jersey, and had called Goodwill to come pick up therest.It had been cleaned and the new tenant was moving in tomorrow morning.So there was nothing to see.He said he had a headache and would like to lie down.I told him we had somemore ground to cover first.I asked him what Carrie did with the money.He said he had the impression she took it down to Superior and put it in thesafe.It seemed logical that she would have some safe place to put it."What do you want from me?" he asked again."You have a nice operation, Wally.It's cleaner than some loft or oldwarehouse or a trailer parked in the woods.And you have those nice cleanlittle clerks and bank people doing the pushing and being very careful becausethey don't want to mess up this great life-style you created for them.I don'thave to put you out of business because you're already retired.You've got nosupply, right? Do you know what I'm going to recommend? I'm going to say youshould be our exclusive distributor in Bayside.How about that?"I couldn't detect any genuine enthusiasm in his response."What does.it entail?""We'll guarantee top quality.We'll guarantee no hassling by the law [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]