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. On I-10.Almost to Hatchita. Do a U across the divider and get on back here to the office.Some things Iforgot to talk to you about. Oh? About signs to spot.Evidence.What to take pictures of.Did you take anyPage 41 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmllast week? If you did, bring em along.I need to see how you re doing. Bringing along the pictures was no problem.The half of them she hadn t putin the envelope with the letter to Jim were still in thetwo-for-the-price-of-one Walgreen s photos sack, along with the roll ofnegatives.Not the sort of stuff you d shoot for a contest, Bernie thought, asshe flipped through them, but the oryx showed up well in the telephotopicture.Beautiful animal, she thought.Why would anyone consider killing oneof them a sport?* * *[83] Ed Henry gave the oryx hardly a glance.He spent more time studying, andcriticizing, portraits on tire treads, broken-down thistles, snapped stems,footprints, and the like, and then went back to her pictures at the buildingsite. Why did you go in there? No Trespassing sign and all? Bernie explained it.First thinking the truck she d noticed would lead herback to the highway, then being curious about the Mexican license plate, andwhat it was doing out in that empty landscape.Being allowed entry, andfinding that the truck was part of a watering place construction project.Henry nodded, finding it sensible. I don t think I told you about the Tuttle Ranch, he said, looking up fromthe photos. Probably not.It s sort of a private arrangement. Bernie shook her head. Well, the deal is like this.The Tuttle people are sort of subrosa partnersof ours.They keep their eye out for the illegals, mules, stuff we d like toknow.Those watering places they have for the game animals attract theMexicans too.The Tuttle people watch for them and tip us off.Things likethat.All quiet because there are some people in the smuggling trade whowouldn t like that.Might react.You know what I mean? All through this account, Henry s eyes had been studying her. React? Henry nodded. Get mean.Cut fences.Shoot those expensive African animals.Maybe shoot a Tuttle cowboy. [84] You mean the illegals? I mean those smuggling contractors.The coyotes.Take their money, slip emover the border, and dump em off.And maybe bring in a few sacks of cocaineon the side. Bernie nodded again. Yeah, the man who let me in said they d had somevandalism. The bottom line to all this is the Tuttle people help us and in return wedon t bother them.Some of the high-society Mexican big shots like to come infor some big-game hunting.We don t bother them about visas.Anything likethat.And we don t go barging in there to pick up illegals.Just let themknow.They sort of arrest them for us and we go haul them into jail. Page 42 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html I didn t know anything about any of this, Bernie said.Henry smiled at her. Well, now you do.My fault anyway.Should have done myjob and filled you in on all these little side issues. He shuffled throughthe photographs and extracted a close-up Bernie had taken of a tire tread. Why d you take this one? It looked unusual. It is, Henry said. It s what we used to call a recap. You take aworn-out tire and salvage it by replacing the original tread with new rubber.Sort of melting it on.Not done here anymore.Or not much.But they still doit some places in Mexico. It looks like it has a sort of a tread, Bernie said. They press that into the rubber when it s soft.And the point is we ve beenseeing this odd-looking tire mark for several years now.We intercept a drugshipment, or a busload of illegals, and there it is. [85] But you ve never caught the driver? Nope.Had a witness or two who think they saw the pickup.An old blue Ford150, they think it was.Say they see it somewhere near where the action was.Driving by, driving away, parked, or something.Driver supposed to be a skinnyman.Oldish. So if I see the truck that s leaving these tracks, I stop him? No.Call it in and keep it in sight.Could be dangerous, Henry said. Ormost likely, nothing at all.Just coincidence. Henry gathered the prints andthe negative roll into a pile, opened his desk drawer, swept it in, and shutthe drawer.He gave Bernie a challenging look. This all of them? Some of them I dumped, Bernie said. Out of focus, or the film fogged orsomething. A moment of silence.Henry looked doubtful. But those would be on the negatives, wouldn t they? Sure, Bernie said, wondering what this was about. Now I need one more picture, Henry said.He opened the drawer again,extracted a pocket-sized camera, and made sure it was loaded. Need one ofyou. And what was this about? Her expression must have asked that question. I ll send it out to the Tuttle people so they ll know you, Henry said. Sothey ll know you re a legitimate Customs Service Agent. That stung a little. Don t I look like one.Uniform, badge, all that. You didn t mention the jewelry, Henry said. You re out of uniform and nowI have photographic evidence to prove it if I ever need to fire you.I meanwearing that [86] little silver fellow on your lapel.Looks like you re goingPage 43 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlto a party or something.That stickpin s pretty but it s not allowed whenyou re on duty. Bernie touched the stickpin an inch-long but skinny replica of a Navajoyeiher clan called Big Thunder.Her mother s brother had given it to her atherkinaalda ceremony when the family had gathered to celebrate her newwomanhood. He will look after you, Hostiin Yellow had told her. Have himwith you any time you need help. I didn t know about that regulation, Bernie said. The pin s a familything.I just wear it for luck. Just have your luck off duty then, Henry said.11 Let s go over this again, Captain Largo said. As I understand it, you wantme to send you down to the Mexican border for a couple of days or so, so youcan get yourself involved in a U.S.Customs Service situation, because maybeit s connected to an FBI case in which you re not supposed to be involvedanyway.Is that what you re asking? Captain Largo was leaning back in his swivel chair.He had let his bifocalsslide down his nose and was staring at Chee over them (and over three or fourstacks of paperwork).Waiting patiently for Chee to come up with a response. Well, Chee said. It could be that. Largo waited again, pushed his glasses back into proper position, shifted inhis chair. Why not just walk in here and say something like, ah, like, Captain, I vegot a bunch of leave time coming [88] and things are sort of quiet around herenow, why don t I take a few days and go down south and see how BernieManuelito is doing [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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. On I-10.Almost to Hatchita. Do a U across the divider and get on back here to the office.Some things Iforgot to talk to you about. Oh? About signs to spot.Evidence.What to take pictures of.Did you take anyPage 41 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmllast week? If you did, bring em along.I need to see how you re doing. Bringing along the pictures was no problem.The half of them she hadn t putin the envelope with the letter to Jim were still in thetwo-for-the-price-of-one Walgreen s photos sack, along with the roll ofnegatives.Not the sort of stuff you d shoot for a contest, Bernie thought, asshe flipped through them, but the oryx showed up well in the telephotopicture.Beautiful animal, she thought.Why would anyone consider killing oneof them a sport?* * *[83] Ed Henry gave the oryx hardly a glance.He spent more time studying, andcriticizing, portraits on tire treads, broken-down thistles, snapped stems,footprints, and the like, and then went back to her pictures at the buildingsite. Why did you go in there? No Trespassing sign and all? Bernie explained it.First thinking the truck she d noticed would lead herback to the highway, then being curious about the Mexican license plate, andwhat it was doing out in that empty landscape.Being allowed entry, andfinding that the truck was part of a watering place construction project.Henry nodded, finding it sensible. I don t think I told you about the Tuttle Ranch, he said, looking up fromthe photos. Probably not.It s sort of a private arrangement. Bernie shook her head. Well, the deal is like this.The Tuttle people are sort of subrosa partnersof ours.They keep their eye out for the illegals, mules, stuff we d like toknow.Those watering places they have for the game animals attract theMexicans too.The Tuttle people watch for them and tip us off.Things likethat.All quiet because there are some people in the smuggling trade whowouldn t like that.Might react.You know what I mean? All through this account, Henry s eyes had been studying her. React? Henry nodded. Get mean.Cut fences.Shoot those expensive African animals.Maybe shoot a Tuttle cowboy. [84] You mean the illegals? I mean those smuggling contractors.The coyotes.Take their money, slip emover the border, and dump em off.And maybe bring in a few sacks of cocaineon the side. Bernie nodded again. Yeah, the man who let me in said they d had somevandalism. The bottom line to all this is the Tuttle people help us and in return wedon t bother them.Some of the high-society Mexican big shots like to come infor some big-game hunting.We don t bother them about visas.Anything likethat.And we don t go barging in there to pick up illegals.Just let themknow.They sort of arrest them for us and we go haul them into jail. Page 42 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html I didn t know anything about any of this, Bernie said.Henry smiled at her. Well, now you do.My fault anyway.Should have done myjob and filled you in on all these little side issues. He shuffled throughthe photographs and extracted a close-up Bernie had taken of a tire tread. Why d you take this one? It looked unusual. It is, Henry said. It s what we used to call a recap. You take aworn-out tire and salvage it by replacing the original tread with new rubber.Sort of melting it on.Not done here anymore.Or not much.But they still doit some places in Mexico. It looks like it has a sort of a tread, Bernie said. They press that into the rubber when it s soft.And the point is we ve beenseeing this odd-looking tire mark for several years now.We intercept a drugshipment, or a busload of illegals, and there it is. [85] But you ve never caught the driver? Nope.Had a witness or two who think they saw the pickup.An old blue Ford150, they think it was.Say they see it somewhere near where the action was.Driving by, driving away, parked, or something.Driver supposed to be a skinnyman.Oldish. So if I see the truck that s leaving these tracks, I stop him? No.Call it in and keep it in sight.Could be dangerous, Henry said. Ormost likely, nothing at all.Just coincidence. Henry gathered the prints andthe negative roll into a pile, opened his desk drawer, swept it in, and shutthe drawer.He gave Bernie a challenging look. This all of them? Some of them I dumped, Bernie said. Out of focus, or the film fogged orsomething. A moment of silence.Henry looked doubtful. But those would be on the negatives, wouldn t they? Sure, Bernie said, wondering what this was about. Now I need one more picture, Henry said.He opened the drawer again,extracted a pocket-sized camera, and made sure it was loaded. Need one ofyou. And what was this about? Her expression must have asked that question. I ll send it out to the Tuttle people so they ll know you, Henry said. Sothey ll know you re a legitimate Customs Service Agent. That stung a little. Don t I look like one.Uniform, badge, all that. You didn t mention the jewelry, Henry said. You re out of uniform and nowI have photographic evidence to prove it if I ever need to fire you.I meanwearing that [86] little silver fellow on your lapel.Looks like you re goingPage 43 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlto a party or something.That stickpin s pretty but it s not allowed whenyou re on duty. Bernie touched the stickpin an inch-long but skinny replica of a Navajoyeiher clan called Big Thunder.Her mother s brother had given it to her atherkinaalda ceremony when the family had gathered to celebrate her newwomanhood. He will look after you, Hostiin Yellow had told her. Have himwith you any time you need help. I didn t know about that regulation, Bernie said. The pin s a familything.I just wear it for luck. Just have your luck off duty then, Henry said.11 Let s go over this again, Captain Largo said. As I understand it, you wantme to send you down to the Mexican border for a couple of days or so, so youcan get yourself involved in a U.S.Customs Service situation, because maybeit s connected to an FBI case in which you re not supposed to be involvedanyway.Is that what you re asking? Captain Largo was leaning back in his swivel chair.He had let his bifocalsslide down his nose and was staring at Chee over them (and over three or fourstacks of paperwork).Waiting patiently for Chee to come up with a response. Well, Chee said. It could be that. Largo waited again, pushed his glasses back into proper position, shifted inhis chair. Why not just walk in here and say something like, ah, like, Captain, I vegot a bunch of leave time coming [88] and things are sort of quiet around herenow, why don t I take a few days and go down south and see how BernieManuelito is doing [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]