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unwanted attention on the streets. But when she was with me she could loosen up a little, go without a bra and let it all hang loose. Even after feeding Claire her tits were still as perky as ever. Frank took them down another notch or two, but back then I used to get a real rush walking down the street with her, my arms around her, like Van the Man says, knowing that every guy around was getting a hard-on just looking at her. That ever happen to you?’
    He looked at me.
    ‘What’s the matter, Tone? You don’t say nothing. You’re not inhibited, are you? The stereotypical uptight Brit? We’re just a couple of guys here. We can talk freely.’
    ‘I’ll speak my piece later.’
    ‘Or your piece will speak for you. You’re not planning to shoot me, are you?’
    ‘Don’t be ridiculous.’
    ‘Pardon my asking. Just a thought that occurred to me. You know how we no-class Americans can’t help blabbing out anything that crosses our minds. Where were we? I’m losing my grip. Time for another hit.’
    He sat down and gulped some more whiskey.
    ‘Right, those photos. And that’s not all. I was kind of unhappy about Luce kicking me out, tell you the truth. In fact I was seriously pissed off. So to get even, I decided to sort of keep an eye on her for a while, see what transpired. And that’s how I come to have the tapes of her and Scott.’
    He paused.
    ‘You know about Scott?’
    ‘I think she mentioned the name.’
    ‘What did she say?’
    ‘I don’t remember.’
    ‘Forgive me, I’m curious to know how she pitched it.’
    ‘She said something about him being a co-worker and that they’d gone to Japan together on some sales trip.’
    ‘Did she tell you that they’d done the deed? That’s what she would have said, I’ll bet. “Done the deed.” She loved those corny old expressions.’
    He looked at me.
    ‘She didn’t? Well, I don’t blame her. Personally, I think it was a mite reckless of her to mention Scott at all. Don’t scare the new horse, would have been my advice. So obviously she didn’t tell you what happened once they got back. She didn’t tell me either, of course, but I found out just the same because I was stalking her at the time, like I said. And I have to tell you that once Scott and Luce got back from that sales trip to Tokyo they proceeded to do the very same deed at least a dozen times more back in town. It sounds dumb, but that kind of shocked me. I mean, I didn’t expect Luce to remain celibate, but I somehow didn’t expect to be replaced so soon. Although I have to say that given what she was after, she made a pretty good choice. This Scott was a real studly guy, some kind of work-out fanatic, one of those abs-of-steel types. He liked to get her to walk on his stomach. Wish I’d been able to have her do that. She must have looked pretty good from that angle.’
    ‘How do you know all this?’
    He frowned at me.
    ‘Are you paying attention? I told you. I taped them at it. Well, some of it, anyway. But I’ve got pretty lengthy extracts from eight sessions. They used a motel, you see. Luce had the kids at home and Scott had a wife. And since they had no reason to suppose that anyone suspected them, they always used the same motel. So I checked out the facility in question, and figured out that whatever the room number, the bed was always on the left-hand side of the unit. After that, it was just a question of following Luce down there, seeing which room she went into, and then trying for the one next to it. “107 free? I’ll take that.” Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn’t. Then a microphone embedded in a suction cup sticker attached to the party wall, and I got to record the whole party. The sound quality isn’t that great, compared with what I got up to later, but it’s okay. They were mostly quite loud, anyway. You can surely make out what was going on.’
    He stood up unsteadily.
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