The Kid

By Gadfly on Apr 16, 2017

At the Carlton, Paladin returns from an all-night tryst with a female and friend and finds Hey Boy dozing in a chair. He wakes up and gives Paladin a letter with $100. It promises Paladin $900 more if he comes to Last Gasp to protect Tom Wilson. Paladin rides to Last Gasp and goes into the bar. The bartender Rudy tells him that Tom Wilson is dead and a man, Moriarty, squished him to death. Rudy directs Paladin to Moriarty, and Moriarty says that Tom hired a gunman to kill him and came at him…