“some priest” travel the Hershey Highway. Jean Clarice Staley. A Hollywood exchange. That rates a Huh? She’s a woman—but Tommy runs Greek. He rapes women—he don’t call them. That hot-box pay phone. It’s right upside the Herald. It’s drilled for slug calls. Plus this head-scratcher. It rates a big Huh? Fourteen pay phones. All down in Baja. All in Ensenada. All eighty miles south of T.J. Let’s backtrack. Tommy ran wetbacks for Carlos Madrano. That Spanish-language book in Tommy’s room. Head-scratchers. Brain-broilers. Code 3 Alert. Look out, son. You’re brushing upside Dudley Smith. Rain
