"But you have to keep your cartuned and everything all the time to get that, the fuel injection iscomputer controlled from factory settings. No need f...r tune ups everyfew months or ten to twenty thousand miles." Yes and when I need to do it I don't have to pay someone eightydollars an hour either." Sophie shot back at him.As they walked the line with James, Danny asked, "Is that how muchRachel charges to tune up peoples cars?" I saw her hook her laptop up to Gina Morrison's Saturn at school. "You ain't big or bad enough to take me anywhere," he said."Sweetie, I been fighting rag heads for the last four years off and on, I won't even think twice would putting your ass in the hospital," I did say it with a smile."Then you got it to do." He reached to put me in a bear hug I suppose. I chopped him once in the pit of the stomach and once in the throat. He went down like a tree.I had been a Deputy Sheriff less than a day. I did not want to arrest anyone so soon. I rolled him over and. That seemed to quiet him down some. This ain't over, but it's good ways to being corrected." Not the way I want it corrected," Earl pointed out."Earl, we talked about this before we took up the mission. This was what we decided we'd settle for." I know, Frank, but that don't make me not want to castrate that asshole." Earl, we know your wants. But we also know what reality is. This is as good as it's going to get. If he wins the election, he's going to be in office for another 4 years. I've. I'm not going to be a photo eunuch anymore." Your career's over," he predicted, looking at me with a mixture ofpity and annoyance. "Mine probably is, too." He made a few adjustmentsto his tripod and his camera. He glared at me over the instruments ofhis art. "Could you manage a fucking smile, at least?"I didn't much feel like smiling at the moment, but I did. After all, Iam a professional.An hour later, Carlos had taken all the photos the waning sunlightwould allow, and we drove back to our.