“Oh, nothing important.” He knew the lie was transparent. “Just trying to figure where my own career is going, that’s all. I met a girl. . . .”
“Yeah?”
“TV news-type person. Met her in Bangkok during all the excitement there. I … I’m in love with her. . . .” ‘ “But there’re the old questions about whether love and salt
water mix, hey?”
%. “Something like that.” Tombstone grinned suddenly. “You
i know the old saying. ‘If the Navy wanted you to have a wife,
they’d have issued you one with your seabag.’ ” He looked at
•;; his watch, “Shit. I gotta go.”
I•’. “Hey, wait.”
:, But Tombstone didn’t want to talk about it, not now. He
f stood, picking up the tray with his unfinished supper. “Catch
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