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“MAYBE SO. HE NEVER DID tell me how he came to be at the brothel, though he did say that he hadn’t been there long, not much more than a year.”

“Forgive my surprise, Chaudron. I didn’t realize that Argentine women ever paid for male prostitutes. I always thought Argentina was more—”

“No, no, Becker, that’s not it. That wasn’t what he did there. Not that he wouldn’t—you know him yourself. He worked there as a sort of bookkeeper or administrator.”

“Now I see.”

“You do?”