“I was giving you the benefit, that you got in over your head without knowing. What’s going to happen, you go on like this, talk about murder, crazy stuff like that?” He wagged his head solemnly from side to side. “Lake Tahoe is very deep. You could take a long dive, no Aqualung, concrete on the legs.” “You could sit in a hot seat, no cushion, electrodes on the bald head.” The big man took a step toward me, watching Schwartz with a doggy eye, and lunged around with his big shoulders. Schwartz surprised me by laughing, rather tinnily: “You are a brave young man. I like you. I wish you no harm.
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