Stone Barrington 27 - Doing Hard Time

the two guards were chatting up a pretty extra. He walked over and cleared his throat to get their attention. “Fellas, I’m afraid your careers in the film business are over. You can stand down, just as soon as you’ve given me a lift back to The Arrington.”
    “As you wish, Mr. Barrington. Will Peter be needing us tomorrow?”
    “No, Peter is going to be just fine on his own. We all have to let go.”
    As he was walking from the building, Billy Barnett caught up with him.
    “Good morning,” Stone said.
    “Morning to you.”
    “Did you sleep well last night?”
    “Everything went about as it should,” Teddy replied.
    “Both of them?”
    “Vlad will get the attention of the LAPD,” Teddy said. “Majorov will be attended to by the Moscow morgue, when he arrives there.”
    “Do I need to know anything else?”
    “I don’t think there’s anything else you want to know,” Teddy said. “And it’s best to forget what you already know.”
    “Are you going to work for Mike Freeman at Strategic Services?”
    “Probably, eventually. First I have to get your boy an instrument rating and see that he’s at home in his new airplane. That will take a few weeks, and then my work here will be done, and Mike and I will talk again. You can tell him that for me.”
    Stone shook his hand. “Thank you for my son’s life,” he said, “and those of Hattie and Ben, too.”
    “You’re very welcome,” Teddy replied.
    Stone left him, walked out to the car, and got into the rear seat. “Let’s take a turn around the lot before we go back to the hotel,” he said to his escorts.
    “Yes, sir. Anything in particular you want to see?”
    “Maybe the New York street. No, let’s see it all. I’ve done some hard time in this place, and I want one more look at it before I go.”
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