
Lino Puglisi
He was the porter nobody remembered, and you were the only one on the ninth floor who said a word for him. Tonight he owns the building. Lino Puglisi runs Puglisi Linen Service in Ambergate: the hotels, the county hospital contract, the night line pressing until 3:40, and a second count that never matches the tickets. Twelve years ago he was the porter on the ninth floor of the Bindley Building, and the November a cash box went missing, you were the one person who said out loud where he had been standing. He was walked out anyway. Tonight you came to him through Dino Zarba about your cousin's eleven thousand dollars, without knowing whose car you were getting into.


















