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Falconer 94<br />
the purest person I have ever known because he didn’t have any<br />
conscience at all, I guess I mean he didn’t have any prefabricated<br />
conscience. He just moved through it all like a swimmer through<br />
pure water. So then he said he was sleepy and tired and I said I was<br />
sleepy and tired and he said he was sorry he robbed me of the<br />
money but he hoped he’d made it up to me and I said he had and<br />
then he said that he knew I had some cash in my shoe but that he<br />
wasn’t going to steal it and that I shouldn’t worry and so we fell<br />
asleep. It was a nice sleep and when we woke in the morning I<br />
made some coffee and we joked and shaved and dressed and there<br />
was all the money in my shoe and I said I was late and he said he<br />
was late too and I said late for what and he said he had a client<br />
waiting in room 273 and then he asked did I mind and I said no, I<br />
guessed I didn’t mind, and then he said could we meet at around<br />
half-past five and I said sure.<br />
“So he went his way and I went mine and I made five sales that<br />
day and I thought that he wasn’t only pure, he was lucky, and I felt<br />
very happy coming back to the motel and I took a shower and had<br />
a couple of drinks. There was no sign of him at half-past five and<br />
no sign of him at half-past six or seven and I guessed he’d found a<br />
customer who didn’t keep his money in his shoe and I missed<br />
him, but then sometime after seven the phone rang and I slid a<br />
base to get it, thinking it was Michael, but it was the police. They<br />
asked if I knew him and I said sure I knew him, because I did. So<br />
then they asked could I come down to the county courthouse and<br />
I asked what for and they said they’d tell me when I got there so I<br />
said I would be there. I asked the man in the lobby how to get to<br />
the county courthouse and he told me and then I drove there. I<br />
thought perhaps he’d been picked up on some charge like<br />
vagrancy and needed bail and I was willing, I was willing and eager<br />
to bail him out. So when I spoke to the lieutenant who called me<br />
he was nice enough but also sad and he said how well did I know<br />
Michael and I said I’d met him at the Chinese restaurant and had<br />
some drinks with him. He said they weren’t charging me with
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