to give you twenty.'
'How much you taking?'
'Half,' Macklin said.
'My show.'
'And I'm the number-two man?'
'Absolutely.'
'Twenty,' Crow said.
'That only leaves thirty percent for everybody else,' Macklin said.
'I can't get quality guys divvying thirty.'
'Lie to them,' Crow said.
Macklin grinned.
'How you know I promise you twenty, I'm not lying to you?'
'You know better,' Crow said.
Macklin cocked a forefinger at Crow and brought the thumb down.
'Twenty it is,' Macklin said.
THIRTEEN.
Abby Taylor was in Jesse's office with other lawyer.
'I've been retained to represent Carleton Jencks,' Abby said.
'This is Brendan Fogarty, who represents the Hopkins boys.'
Abby had on a maroon suit with a short skirt and a short jacket with no lapels.
'You a criminal lawyer, Mr. Fogarty?'
Jesse said.
'I'm Charles Hopkins' personal attorney,' Fogarty said.
'This is a criminal case,' Jesse said.
'Well,' Abby said, 'that's what we wanted to talk about.'
Abby would be wearing maroon lingerie. When he had been in a position to know such things, her undergarments had always been coordinated.
'Go ahead,' Jesse said.
'These are kids,' Abby said.
'They made a mistake, but they have a life ahead of them. To press charges will just make matters worse.'
'You talk to Canton and Brown?' Jesse said.
'Yes. They came to me to ask if I could represent them in a civil suit, but I had already been retained by the Jencks family.'
'They don't want to press charges?'
'The Jencks family and, as I believe Mr. Fogarty will confirm, the Hopkins family are prepared to make financial restitution.'
'If charges are dropped?'
'That would be the idea,' Fogarty said.
'And what about the kids?' Jesse said.
'They get a second chance.'
'To burn somebody else's house down?'
'They're kids, Jesse.'
'And they burned down a house because they don't like the sex lives of the people who live there. What if they don't like your sex life?'
Jesse thought that Abby blushed faintly, but maybe he was wrong.
'Wait a minute, Jesse,' Fogarty said.
'You don't know me,' Jesse said.
'Call me Chief Stone.'
'Don't get hard-assed with me, chief,' Fogarty said.
'You don't have a case will stand up in court. You didn't read them their Miranda rights.'
'They were read their rights when they were arrested,' Jesse said.
