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The United States My name is Donald Hateson, private investigator.

Maybe you heard about me, I cracked the Turner kidnapping back in 1946.

It wasn't very hard.

I paid off a few stool pigeons and went right to the hideout.

It did my reputation a lot of good, though.

Enough good for me to be called into the mayor's office down at City Hall to see Big Mike Flaredie himself.

Well, sit down, Hishon. Sit down.

Thanks.

You'll have to forgive me for speaking so low.

That's a bad case of laryngitis.

Yes, it is.

Haitian, I've been a fool. You didn't get to be mayor of a city like this by being a fool. Well, you know, Haitian, when you get old, you want to believe a lot of things. We want to believe so hard that sometimes you throw your common sense right out of the window. You get hardening of the cranial arteries to become stupid.

What's the pitch, Mr. Mayor?

You didn't call me in to discuss the philosophy of growing old gracefully.

Jason, I want you to do some investigating for me.

Naturally, it must be confidential.

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