“You can’t do anything about anything,” Cogan said. “None of you guys can. Everything just goes haywire and everything, that’s fine, you need somebody, get things straightened out. I’m just telling you, is all, it’s gonna cost more, now on.”
“Tell Dillon,” the driver said. “Take it up with him.”
“Dillon’s dead,” Cogan said. “Dillon died this morning.”
The driver was silent for a while. Then he said: “He’s going to be sorry to hear that.”
“No sorrier’n I am,” Cogan said.
The driver sipped his ginger ale. “I assume,” he said, “I assume.… What killed him?”
“I know the name of it,” Cogan said. “I got home this morning, my wife left me a note, they took Dillon the hospital about midnight or so. They told me what it was. That’s all I know.”
“He died in the hospital, then,” the driver said.
“Like I say,” Cogan said, “I dunno what it is. All I know’s what they told me. ‘Myocardial infarct.’ You know what that is? I guess it’s the same thing, the heart trouble.”
“That’s what he had,” the driver said. “Well, how about that? Dillon’s dead. Son of a bitch.”
“He wasn’t a bad guy, actually,” Cogan said.
“No,” the driver said, “no, I guess he wasn’t. He wasn’t a bad guy.”
“He always,” Cogan said, “he never, well, I knew Dillon a long time, right? It was Dillon, really, got me started, said I oughta get something besides the booking, something that’d be around and like that, you know? He was the guy that really plugged me in. I knew Dillon a long time.”
“He knew him a long time too,” the driver said. “He had a lot of respect for him.”
“Sure,” Cogan said, “so’d I. You know why?”
“You were afraid of him?” the driver said.
“Nah,” Cogan said. He finished his beer. “Nah, it wasn’t that. It was, he knew the way things oughta be done, right?”
“So I’m told,” the driver said.
“And when they weren’t,” Cogan said, “he knew what to do.”
“And so do you,” the driver said.
“And so do I,” Cogan said.
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