don’t know, Lou. I can promise at least to give it serious theoretical consideration.”
“What the hell does that mean?”
“I’ll think about it, Lou. Meanwhile you sit still, and keep your mouth shut. Until you hear from me.”
“We need to move fast,” Burke said.
“I’m aware of that, Lou. And we will, but we will move
Only‘ ? z57 with deliberate Speed. I agree with you that we’ve underestimated Stone, nd we don’t want to underestimate him
“Yeah, sure, Hasty. Just as long as we get him before he gets us.”
“He won’t get us, Lou,” Hasty
said. “You’re on suspension.
Go home, sit in your house, stay there, and say nothing.“
“I’m counting on you, Hasty,”
Burke said.
“Of course,” Hasty said.
recent entry back. It took him a day to reach the parts that seemed interesting, and yet another day to cut and paste them together into a narrative that he could study.
May 11 .—Talked to Hasty Hathaway at the post office.
He is the most important man in Paradise, kind of old.
Memorial Day—Hasty Hathaway was talking to me today at the Parade. He acts kind of interested. Its hard to tell with a guy as geeky as he is, but a girl can listen.
June 28—Had a drink at the 86 last night. Looking good if I do say so. New white sweater, the black jeans I got that make my butt look really good. Hasty Hathaway bought me a drink, took me home. We stopped at Indian Hill on the way, and I thought he was going to come on to me, but we just talked. He’s really kind of nice, sort of a sad person. Who’d think so, all that money and everything.
But he says him and his wife haven’t got much going in the sex department. Says he’s pretty lonely. Said he needs somebody like me to talk with. I told him he could
.,take me out to dinner sometime if he wanted. He said he had to be careful in town, him being a married man and all, but we could go into Boston maybe. I said sure. He ti:i said did I mind him married, and I said His wife’s being no.
Bi married I said, not him. He that cute.
thought was pretty
Then be took me home and never even touched me. Strange guy.
Fun, maybe.
July 9—ate at the
Ritz—Wow!!!—fancy as hell, lotta food I didn’t know what It was. We had caviar. I thdn’t like it much. Hasty was asking me a lot of questions about l! Bobby and and how divorced and did I
come we got
I have I think be trying to find out boyfriend.
Mostly a
was
I
:. about our sex life, sort of weird, but he can show a you pretty nice time.
Ju! 13—We had lunch at a place in town called Loc Ober’s. Really fancy.
Champagne
Had
French too.
After, f‘
he said he had at the Parker House and would I a room want to go there with him. lust like that, he said it.
Like he was inviting me to go fishing or something. I didn’t answer him at first, cause I was thinking about how he’d be kind of funny looking with his clothes off, but I’ve done worse than Hasty, and I was feeling no pain and a girl needs to think about her future. So I say, sure, I’d love to, and we did. I figured a guy his age and all I’d have to work pretty hard to get his motor going, but Hasty was so excited when we got into bed that I thought he was going to come on the bedspread. No work at all. In fact it was over so quick I never really got going myself. After, Hasty gave me a nice ring. Solid gold with a little diamond in it. A real one.
July 29—-Hasty’s getting better. He lasts long enough now so I get something out of it. I mean it’s not like Bobby and me, but he’s getting the idea about touching me a little bit? first. I’m teaching him different positions.
It’s like he thought there was only one. No wonder his old lady isn’t interested. I hope what I teach him doesn’t get her interested.
