by Gordon Kent
“Al, I’m so sorry.”
“Me, too. But you pays your money and you takes your choice. I made my choice. And I still have some friends.” He put his hand on the door handle. “Where can I drop you?”
“Oh, my office,” Peretz said.
They got in and Peretz, once settled, said, nodding in the direction of the building where Perpetual Justice had had its offices, “You going to follow these guys?”
“Well, as the painter said, ‘They come and they go.’” He eased the car backward, then drove down the ramp and to the exit. He stopped with the car’s nose almost in the street. “They come and they go.” He looked left and right, turned his head back to the right toward central Washington and its highways and byways of power. “The question is,” he said, “where do they go?” He turned left.
By Gordon Kent
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