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go over the details with you. It’s a sweet deal.”
    â€œI don’t want to come to the office. I trust you. But, Gianni, make it come together. It’ll be all the money I have in the world.”
    â€œWait a minute. Your boring portfolio, music royalties, the house, the money Nora has invested for both you and Georgia?”
    â€œI kiss it all good-bye.”
    Long pause.
    â€œI’m keeping enough to live on reasonably for one year.”
    â€œYou? Seventy-five grand? What’s happening here? Really happening?”
    â€œLet’s walk.” These days Robbie could barely think unless he was walking.
    Gianni left his custom-made Italian shoes behind and hopped barefoot through the weeds. The air was still, thick, salty. Robbie felt like he was breathing an essential transfusion of blood and funky new life. They crossed onto the packed, damp shoreline sand.
    â€œGianni, I’m gone. It’s for certain they’ve looked for me at my boat, and that they’ll never look here. Nora and Georgia’s attorneys are probably writing me piles of notices, but they don’t know where to send them. And with your help, they never will.”
    â€œYou’re not…”
    Robbie let a beat pass. “The band will find a way to manufacture money without me.”
    â€œThis isn’t funny, Robbie. We’re talking your life, your career, your money down the toilet. Why are you grinning? I’m worried about you, and probably not as worried as I should be.”
    â€œHey, we Scots don’t weep, we battle-cry,” Robbie said.
    â€œRobbie? Enough.”
    â€œHere’s the bottom line: Everyone wants something from me, and they’ll look for me. I have a counter-move.” He stopped and took his friend by the shoulders. “I say, ‘Rob Roy, who’s that? Robbie Macgregor, who’s that?’ With one gesture, I slip off the world.”
    â€œWhat has possessed you?”
    Robbie let go of Gianni and strode on. “I’m wild with ideas. The first is Start Over.”
    â€œYou’ve lost your marbles.”
    â€œNo, I have a new set of them. Gianni, I had one twenty-year adult life. It was good, it was bad, it was juicy, and then it was … It’s stretched out in front of me now in a casket. I see a bloodless face and eyes that are open but see nothing. But me? I’m alive, and I’m going for it.”
    â€œGoing for what?”
    â€œThat’s the best part. I have no idea. ”
    â€œMaybe if you made this into a song you’d have another big hit.”
    Robbie laughed, shoved his friend a little, and then grabbed his hand before he could fall on the sand. “Enough of the long face and sweaty forehead. It’s going to be okay.”
    They walked on.
    â€œAnd, Gianni? No kidding, I’m counting on you.”
    â€œWhat do you want?”
    â€œFirst say, ‘We’re old pals. I’m with you all the way.’”
    Hesitation. “I’m with you all the way. Jeez, do I have a choice?” He tried out a smile.
    Another bear hug and slap on the back. “So, it’s simple. Keep telling everyone that you have no idea where I am. Sell the stocks and invest the money. Give me a couple of weeks to get new ID, and when I say, ‘Meet me in the dark of night at Point Reyes,’ be there for me.”
    There went Gianni’s small smile. “What the fuck?”
    Robbie sat on a boulder and looked out on the slate-shake sea, moonlight rippling on its surface. After a moment Gianni joined him. Robbie lit a Balkan Sobranie, inhaled deeply, and handed it to his friend. “Gianni, I’m getting rid of Rob Roy. I’m changing Robbie Macgregor’s name. From now on I’m Red Stuart.” He paused. “Truly.”
    Gianni said, “Okay, okay. But what’s this melodrama about the dark of night and Point Reyes?”
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