Above the Law

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Author: J. F. Freedman
Tags: Suspense
especially feet. Sooner or later you get tired of everything, then it’s time to pack up and move on.”
    Bill and Joe finished their dinners and carried the dishes into the kitchen. Ray made a move for them, but they stopped him.
    “Least we can do, after all your hospitality.”
    They washed their plates and glasses and set them in the drain. Then they came back into the main room. Joe wandered over to the jukebox, scanned the titles. “ ‘Blue Suede Shoes’? ‘That’ll Be the Day’? Don’t you have anything more modern?”
    “It’s a fifties jukebox,” Deedee instructed him. “It plays fifties music.”
    Joe fished a quarter out of his pocket, dropped it in the slot, punched up some titles. He walked over to Pauline. “Want to dance?”
    She glanced at her friends. “Sure.”
    A slow ballad came on. Joe pushed a few tables to the side to clear room and pulled Pauline to him. They started gliding around the floor, barely moving. More pelvis-grinding than dancing. Bill, not to be left out, cocked his head at Marilyn. She blew on her nails to make sure they were dry, then slid onto the floor with him.
    It was real honky-tonk, the whole scene. The fellows kept feeding the jukebox. They switched off dancing with the girls, fast ones as well as ballads. They were all decent swing dancers—the activity was hot and heavy and fun to watch. Between each selection they were all knocking down the beers with regularity. The men held their alcohol fine, but the girls were getting sloppy.
    “You’re not going to be able to sleep if you drink too much,” I mentioned casually to Marilyn, during one of the times when she was the odd dancer out.
    “I couldn’t sleep anyway,” she replied, taking a swallow off a fresh cold one. “This is like being at a fraternity party. You’re not supposed to sleep, don’t you remember? Or was it too long ago?” she joshed me.
    “The memories are growing faint, but yes,” I said.
    A slow song started up. She grabbed my hand. “Dance with me.”
    She had a lush, womanly body, which she pressed tighter against me than I needed. Her head rested against my shoulder, her lips brushing against my ear. “Don’t worry,” she whispered, “I won’t tell your wife on you.”
    I was getting aroused in spite of myself. Mercifully, the song ended before she could feel anything; I hoped.
    “Another?” she asked, her hand moving lightly in mine.
    A couple of the executives had been watching us—enviously, I realized, with a hit of ego-stroking. I’d been body to body with this lovely young thing, and they hadn’t. That was enough.
    “I’ll sit this one out.”
    “Chicken.”
    “You betcha.”
    She segued over to Joe as the next number came on. I took a stool next to Wally, at the bar. He poured me a couple of fingers of my favorite libation. I was drinking moderately; I wanted to stay sharp.
    “Give me twenty years,” he said, hoisting his own drink. “Hell, give me ten.” He watched the dancers.
    “Maybe you should turn off the tap soon,” I suggested.
    He looked at me. “You think?”
    “They’re underage. It’s going to hit them all of a sudden.”
    “Okay.” He glanced around the room. Everyone else was settled in for the night, as best they could. “It’s only them, anyway.” He sipped his vodka slowly, still watching the action. “Those guys’re sure lucky to be alive. They’re pretty damn tough, to have survived what they did.” He grinned. “Holding on to a pretty girl, I’ll bet that was the last thing on their minds.” He watched them dance some more. “So what’d you think of that crappy-ass story they laid on us?”
    “What story?”
    “Hard-core hikers out in the wilds for ten days, fighting their way back to civilization, all that jazz.”
    “What’s not to believe?”
    He shook his head. “You’re out ten days, you don’t have any food or water, but you take the time to shave and change clothes? Then your ride breaks down and you leave
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