One Dead Lawyer by Tony Lindsay

Author:Tony Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

I went into my bathroom and wet a clean face towel with warm water. It was minor, but I couldn’t think of anything else that might comfort her.

I told her Stanley and I were going to get a friend of mine to go with us to pay off his problem. She reached in her purse, pulled out a pen and the check from Martin. She endorsed it and handed it to me without a word said. She rolled under the covers and pulled them over her head, still dressed in her new suit.

When I got downstairs to the kitchen, Stanley was sitting at the table watching the dogs eat. He truly had grown into a lanky kid, long arms and legs. I guessed he was probably five-foot-ten and 140 pounds on a good day. He was at the age where a little weight training would benefit him greatly. My plans were to take him over to the Y and train him on the free weights after things had settled down. I wanted to show him some basics that he could use for the rest of his life.

“Stanley, don’t let the dogs out. Just open the back door so they can use the paper. We’re leaving your mama here while we take care of your business.”

“That’s cool.” He didn’t move from the table. “You know something Mr. Price?”

I stood in the doorway. “What’s that, Stanley?”

“I’m glad my mother broke off my thang with Martin. Yeah, I’m going to miss the loot, but ever since I been hooked up with him Ma been trippin’, acting all sad and stuff. At first I thought it was because I was makin’ my own cream but it wasn’t really the money. It was like whenever she heard me workin’ on a deal, she’d just go all flat. Yeah, it was a lot of money, but it wasn’t worth seeing her like that.

“Besides, I got two grand in the bank and with what’s left from the check I should be able to flip that Aurora. I’m just going to have to go down a little on the rims, but the tint and sound system will be tight, ya can bet that.”

“I’m sure they will be, young brother.”

“So did Ma start crying?”

“She’s settled down some. I’m hoping she takes a nap.”

“That ain’t gonna happen. Ma don’t sleep. It will be one or two in the morning before she falls off, believe me. She makes it hard on a brother trying to make them late-night telephone calls. I don’t even bother with the phone after ten. It ain’t worth the embarrassment.”

“Tell me, Stanley, how did you get the name Snap?”

Guardedly he asked me, “Where did you hear that name?”

“You introduced yourself that way on the phone, when you were talking to your problem.”

“Aw, yeah. When I was a kid I used to get into fights real quick. Other kids started calling me ‘Snap,’ and it stuck.”

“Used to get into fights real quick? Based on what I saw behind your house and out at Eleanor’s you still get into it pretty quick.

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