“Have to be. Urologists rule men and men rule the world, Mr. Higgins.”
“Yeah? He believes young Sterling is innocent, and he knew I was ‘a dick’ the minute he laid eyes on me.”
“And how do you know that? Personal charm? Or just ‘two strong men face to face’?”
Higgins ignored the remark and continued:
“Offered me a good cigar, and looked me smack in the eye, and then says, ‘A friend of Doctor MacArthur and Dr. Bear Sterling is always welcome in my clinic, sir.’ He’s the bird made MacArthur hire us against the opposition, or I’m a green one.”
“You are that, too. But you are right about him. Everything comes to a G. U. including ‘dicks’.”
“How do you know?”
“My grandmother told me. What about the psychiatrist?”
“Ever faced one of those birds?”
Snod had felt his way back to the couch and sat down.