Comfort to the Enemy (2010) (14 page)

Virgil said to his boy, You tend to make friends and influence people, Jurgen, Shemane, and get things going.

Carl said, You're saying I started all this? By bringing Teddy here?

And you aren't through yet, are you? You going after Jurgen?

If they want me to. The first thing I'd do is find out what kind of car Shemane bought him.

You're stuck on that idea, Virgil said. But if you work it, you'll come up with the car, won't you? You remember -you were 21 years old, you came home from shooting Emmett Long the bank robber through the heart. You remember what I told you?

Do I remember, Carl said, I almost had it tattooed on my other arm. 'God help us show-offs.'