The dame who walked into my office didn't knock. She just opened the door and stood there, and I knew from the way she did it that she was used to people opening doors for her or standing out of her way or both. She was wearing black gloves. Black gloves in New Orleans in August is not a fashion statement. It's a declaration of war against common sense. I need you to find something for me, she said. I need you to leave, I said. I was Jack Morin. I was thirty-five years old, I had been in the infantry in the war, and I had learned that the world contains two kinds of people: the ones who need things found, and the ones who find things, and the latter group is always poorer, always hungover, and always tired.

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