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“I’m sorry, Bill, you haven’t zoomed in far enough.”
“Jack, ah, Cummings!”
“Bill, do you possess a magnifying glass?”
“Right here, on my desk.”
“Apply it to the announcement you’re talking about and read me the name.”
“Collins.”
“Ah, the infamous John Collins.”
“He was also at NYU Law. Everybody called him Jack.”
“Got him,” Stone said, “bottom of the page.”
“That’s the one. You had to know the guy, Stone. He made quite a name for himself.”
“I tend to ignore ones like that. They were always wanting to borrow your notes, or something.”
“He kept the whole law school in grass.”
“Well, he wasn’t afraid of risk, was he?”
“Didn’t you ever buy from him?”
“Bill, I don’t even smoke cigarettes. I choke if I try to inhale any foreign substance. Sometimes, I vomit.”
“Everybodyknew this guy.”
“I didn’t meet him until late in life,verylate in life.” Stone gave him the condensed version of that meeting.
“That’s crazy. Same school as this guy, then decades later, he turns up dead in your garage!”
“He turned up dead on the ferry. My garage was used to keep him cool and dry until they could airlift him to the morgue. You may recall the rain of last weekend.”
“Oh, yeah. Did you get a look at his face?”
“Yes, it was bland and uninteresting.”
“Did you see the scar?”
“I must have missed that.”
“Two guys tried to steal his stash, and he fought them off, except one of them had a knife. It made theDaily News.”
“I’ve always read theTimes.”
“You were a snob even then?”
“You wound me, Bill. I never knew you thought I was a snob.”
“Of course you’re not. Weren’t. But some people thought so.”
“I was just reserved, I guess, and some people mistook that for being snobbish.”
“That sounds right.”
