749632- 11. the man in the gray suit

by red jones

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the car sent to pick up the man in the brown coat and yellow straw hat pulled over and stopped and the man in the brown coat and yellow straw hat opened the rear door and got in the back seat. the car was driven by a man in a gray suit with a blue dodgers cap perched at a jaunty angle on his head. a pink shirt with red stripes and a navy blue bow tie completed his attire. he had a pale white face, as if he had spent long hours in a coal mine or in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison. hello joe, the pale faced man greeted the man in the brown coat and yellow straw hat. my name is not joe. sorry, my mistake. i am not in the mood for idle conversation. i am sorry. i will not speak again. true to his word, the pale faced man in the gray suit did not speak again. the car got back on the main road. it drove to the edge of the city. it started to rain. the man in the gray suit wondered if he could turn the radio on, but decided against it, as he did not want to annoy the man in the brown coat and yellow straw hat. to be continued