Raylan Givens (02): Riding the Rap by Leonard Elmore

Author:Leonard, Elmore [Leonard, Elmore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, Detective, Detective Series, Fiction, Kidnapping, Novel
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1995-01-01T02:00:00+00:00

Louis said to Harry, sitting on the cot with him, “You didn’t see nothing, you didn’t hear nothing.”

“It was loud,” Harry said. “Jesus.”

“I bet it was.”

“I had the bathing cap on.”

The man seemed numb.

“I know you did. Like doing time, man, you don’t know nothing going on around you, even right in the cell you’re in. So don’t think about it no more. You never saw the man. . . . You listening to me?”

He watched Harry’s bathing cap with the yellow flower nod up and down, the man sitting straight, like afraid to move.

Louis sat thinking for a minute, looking at Mr. King’s stain smeared on the opposite wall, then looked away as he realized he was staring at it. He said, “Harry, go on in the bathroom and stand at the mirror—you be away from the camera—and pull your blindfold off.” He had to say, “Go on,” before Harry picked up his chains and shuffled in there. Louis followed him.

Louis stood behind Harry, taller, looking over the man’s shoulder to see his face appear, red marks on it from the bathing cap, eyes bloodshot, with the pitiful expression of a man who didn’t know shit what was happening to him.

Louis said, “Harry, what you see behind you, man, is your salvation. Me. I’m the only way you gonna get out of here alive. I want you to see what I look like ‘cause we partners now. Understand?”

He watched Harry’s head nod up and down without much change in his eyes.

“You gonna do whatever I tell you, huh?”

Harry nodded.

“We get out of here, you gonna take a trip to Freeport with me.” Harry waited and Louis said, “Aren’t you?”

Harry nodded.

“And since we partners, we get there you gonna move half your money from your bank account to my bank account.” Louis paused. “Go on, nod your head.”

Harry nodded.

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