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car. But not my sister. Nobody find her. This does not surprise me too much, Mr. Ray. She is, what do you say, self-reliant. Too self-reliant, maybe you know. She leave our family and come to United State. I give her job running my company here and then she not appear. That is my problem. The American police do not know who kill the two girls."
    "I wouldn't be so sure."
    "I am sure. I pay people to tell some things."
    "You can pay people, but that doesn't mean they know."
    "I am paying a man who knows all these things!"
    Ray shrugged.
    "Do you know about this bad thing that happened?"
    Ray shook his head. He wasn't following the news much these days.
    "The American police do not know my sister was in that car. I read the New York City
Daily News
on the Internet in my country. You can still do that if you know what to do. China government say one big thing, everybody do the other thing, the little thing. The paper only say two Mexico girls, where they put the shit into the car. Very bad. Jin Li, she call me and then she does not go to work, like I say before. I have to tell somebody to run my business. That is big problem just like that. Where is Jin Li, I say. She is good at the business for me. I talk with my lawyer in Chinatown. He say if you ask American police to look for Jin Li they will ask too many question. Just like China! I do not like too many question. I am boss, I have the question. In China we do not like the police. We do not trust them. I do not trust polices anywhere. I want to know where is Jin Li but I cannot find her in this city."
    "I'm sure there are plenty of good Chinese private investigators in the city, retired detectives, people like that."
    "That is what my lawyer say. Are you a lawyer, too?"
    "No," answered Ray.
    "So my lawyer get some man to look in her apartment, look at herbank, look at her money, and everything. We do this, we do what he say. Nothing. She is really really hiding, you know what I mean? Or maybe she is dead but how come they do not find the body? I do not think she is dead. She call us, like I say to you. She is upset. This is what she is. Then she did not call anymore to us. But I ask myself why her white boyfriend does not look too much for her? Why he not asking her friends, where is Jin Li? Have you seen her? Maybe he does not love her so much today. That is what my lawyer say. White boy, Chinese girl, no big deal, right?"
    "You want me to talk now?" Ray asked.
    "No." Chen pointed at one of his men and said something in Chinese. The man left the room. Then Chen turned back to Ray. "Here is what I think. She is hiding somewhere-place and you know where, Mr. Ray, you help her now."
    "I don't. I have no idea where she is."
    "Then why you do not ask about her and everything like that?"
    "I didn't know she was missing."
    "I do not believe you."
    "I haven't spoken to her for a couple of weeks, and she stopped returning my calls. In America, we call this getting dumped. And you know, we only saw each other a few months. She didn't tell me much about herself."
    Chen smiled hatefully. "Maybe you were too busy fucking my sister in the pussy to ask so many question."
    "She didn't seem to mind."
    "You like the Chinese pussy? You like how tight it is, Mr. Ray? Not like the big fat white—" Chen's interest was distracted by the return of the man who had departed; he carried a cardboard box. The man set it down in front of Chen, who inspected its contents, nodded, and then looked back at Ray. "Let me tell you some extra things. We know many informations about you, Mr. Ray Grant. We pay lot of money to retired NYPD detectives who tell us about you. We know your father was New York City detective. Sixty-three Precinct. There are many people who do not like him. Right now someone could walk into his room and shoot him."
    "He's dying. He might even prefer to be shot."
    "Maybe yes. But you do not. You want to be with him," Chen ventured, watching Ray's expression. "You need this man, your