"I don't know where my head is." "What fuckin Establishment did we represent to him?" Spermwhale demanded to know. "I'm tired a bein a symbol! I'm not a symbol to my ex-wives and ex-kids. Why does an ordinary guy wanna shoot me?" And all the choirboys looked at each other in the moonlight but there were no answers forthcoming. "I didn't want to kill him," Baxter Slate said quietly. "I never wanted to kill anybody." It was suddenly cold in the park. They were ecstatic when Ora Lee Tingle showed up and hinted she might pull that train. Chapter TEN 7-A-29: Sam Niles and Harold Bloomguard. Lieutenant Finque had a splitting migraine at rollcall on the night Sam Niles and Harold Bloomguard met the Moaning Man and called for choir practice. The migraine was brought about by his defense of the Police Protective League, the bargaining agent manned by Los Angeles police officers for the department. "How the fuck can the Protective League do anything for us?" Spermwhale demanded.
