Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2011-03-21T01:54:57+00:00

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“Cause he don’t have none.”

Confusing the poor woman.

“Then what’s he up to?”

“What I’m telling you, girl, the dude’s Mr. Shakedown.

Was on their rape squad when they threw him out. And before that, guess what he was?”

You know, at first,” Greta said, “he doesn’t seem like a bad guy. I mean getting arrested for creating an improper diversion.. .. But here’s something else.” She turned her head on the pillow to look at Chris.

“You awake?”

“Yeah, I’m reading.”

“Anything good?”

“I think I’ve found it. The part Robin doesn’t want anybody to read.”

“Go ahead, I’ll wait.”

“No, tell me about Donnell.”

“Well, he and some other Black Panthers .. .” Greta looked at the sheet resting against her raised knees.

“Here it is ... were arrested and charged with kidnapping and beating a fellow member of the party. Young guy, eighteen years old. He said they beat him with, quote, blunt instruments and then burned him with cigarette lighters and poured scalding water on him mixed with grease. The victim admitted himself to New Grace and the hospital called the police. Upon being questioned he told them the names of his assailants, including Donnell, saying they had accused him of breaking rule number eight of the Black Panther Party. But then in court, at the pretrial examination, he changed his mind. He said he couldn’t identify his assailants and that the police coerced him into signing the complaint. So Donnell and his buddies were released. He was picked up right after that on a federal gun charge, convicted and sent to prison.”

Chris said, “What’s rule number eight?”

Greta looked at the sheet again.

“It’s written out.

“No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or black people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread.”

“ They looked at each other, heads turned on their pillows.

“I learn interesting facts in bed with you,” Greta said.

“When I was little, Camille and Robert Taylor and I would get in bed with our dad and he’d read the Bobbsey Twins to us.”

Chris said, “Now you get the Ricks brothers and other crazies.” He pushed his glasses up on his nose and looked at Robin’s journal.

“Here’s the part about Mark, her opinion of him. Robin says, “Mark digs the sound, the cant, the beat of revolution. He wants to be part of it, but political science-wise knows next to nothing, zilch. He asks if I believe in the Movement, if I’m a member of the Communist Party. Why sure, Mark. He’s either dumb or naive, but, man, is he loaded! I tell him to come by my tent tonight and I’ll lay it out for him. So to speak.”

“ “Her tent?”

“This is when they were at Goose Lake. The Ricks boys slept in the limo they rented and Robin had her own tent.

She says in case she met somebody interesting.”

“Mark wasn’t interesting enough?”

“She was using him. Listen.” Chris looked at the journal.

“She finishes with Mark by saying, “This guy is so impressionable.

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