Chapter 4<\/b><\/p>\n
“Why do elephants drink so much?”<\/p>\n
“To try to forget. Smellephant, you already told me that one. What, you don’t remember?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah Sam, I remember. I remember everything. That’s what we elephants do.” I looked at the empty whisky glass in front of me, and I thought back on the night before. I would always remember that night, which was a good thing. I would also remember waking up alone the next morning, which was not such a good thing.<\/p>\n
“Why can’t we just remember the good parts, Sam? It would make life so much easier.”<\/p>\n
“Nah,” he shook his head. “We need those bad parts. Makes us human.”<\/p>\n
“Last time I checked, I was an elephant and you were a chimpanzee.”<\/p>\n
“I was speaking metaphorically.” He took another shot. Gotta say this for him, Sam could handle his liquor like no chimp you’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
The bartender set us up another round of Jack Daniels. “Sam, remember when I used to drink single malt?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, but you were boring then. Way too happy. I kinda like you better this way.”<\/p>\n
“Thanks,” I said, “You are a true friend. And thanks for checking on the birth records.”<\/p>\n
“No problem Smellephant. It was all right there — two healthy twin baby girls. The weird thing is, soon after that the trail goes cold. Lulu just disappears — no dental records, no kindergarten enrollment, none of the usual stuff.”<\/p>\n
“What’s your theory?”<\/p>\n
“Well, you’re the shamus, but my guess is Winthrop found out Lulu was back, and hired Whiskers to make her disappear from the record.”<\/p>\n
“And that way when he gets rid of Lulu…”<\/p>\n
“There’d be no paper trail. It’d be like she was never born.”<\/p>\n
“Bastard,” I said. “Yeah, I had it figured pretty much the same way. Except why would Winthrop ice Whiskers before the job was done?”<\/p>\n
“Dunno,” Sam shrugged. “Maybe he thought the hare was finished.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, and maybe Whiskers talked to Manny before he got iced. The parrot was ready to squawk, so he also had to be taken out of the picture.”<\/p>\n
“That’s a big pile of maybes, Smellephant. How do we know for sure?”<\/p>\n
I downed my last shot for the evening. “I’ve got an idea.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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