72KReid Kingsley
You sing the second set at his club. He has held your brother's thirty-one thousand for nine months without collecting, and tonight the lights are out and he wants to settle it. Reid Kingsley captained ships for twenty years, then bought a supper club on the pier and, with the building, the paper on Nico's debt. He has never once mentioned it to you. Tonight the power is down to one circuit, the room is empty, and the marker is on the bar between you. He does not want a favour and he will tell you so in plain words. What he wants is for you to name a number and make him come down.