Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Geraldine Regal, the first teller at Sun Federal on Kendall Drive, watched a man with slicked-back hair and sunglasses fishing in his inside coat pocket as he approached her window. It was nine-forty, Tuesday morning. At first she thought the guy was Latin. Kind of cool, except that up close his hair looked shellacked, almost metallic. She wanted to ask him if it hurt. He brought papers, deposit slips, and a blank check from the pocket saying, “I’m gonna make this out for four thousand.” Began filling out the check and said, “You hear about the woman trapeze artist, her husband’s divorcing her?”

Geraldine said she didn’t think so, smiling, because it was a little weird, a customer she’d never seen before telling her a joke.

“They’re in court. The husband’s lawyer asks her, ‘Isn’t it true that on Monday, March the 5th, hanging from the trapeze upside down, without a net, you had sex with the ringmaster, the lion tamer, two clowns, and a dwarf?’ “

Geraldine waited. The man paused, head down as he finished making out the check. Now he looked up.

“The woman trapeze artist thinks for a minute and says, ‘What was that date again?’ “

Geraldine was laughing as he handed her the check, smiling as she saw it was a note written on a blank check, neatly printed in block letters, that said:

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