Chapters 9 and 10 Summary

In chapter nine, lawyer Janet Pete picks her friend Office Chee up at the airport in Washington, DC, where every male over the age of puberty seems to be wearing a business suit. Janet is fashionably dressed in a gray silk suit that shows off her trim figure. She tells Chee that she has seen the same man repeatedly.He seems to be following her in a dented Chevy.

In his shabby hotel room, Janet Pete tells Chee about her job with the law firm of Dalman, MacArthur, White and Herzog. She works for her lover and former law school professor, millionaire John McDermott. While McDermott is the firm's expert on the Southwest, Janet Pete is their token Indian.

One of McDermott's clients is a real estate development corporation, which has a financial interest in building a highway bypass on Tano...