On the subway Caddy thinks about Rupert Rayne Jr. and how his family came to power.

1. Rupert Rayne? You mean
you’ve honestly never heard
of him? You ever lived in Los Perditos,
trust me you’d know.
Los Perditos,
yeah. That’s
the name of
this city.
Strange name, I know. Say it quickly and you have
it: lost in English, lost in Spanish.
Lost Lost, both me and my city. But how did we
get that way you wonder?
I find most
To figure that one
people don’t
out you have to go
bother trying to
back, back before
understand how
Rupert Rayne Jr.
things got the
took over the city
way they are.
with the Private
But one look at
Force, before his
me and you’ll
father Rupert Rayne
know I’m not
Sr. was murdered as
“most people.”
he ran for mayor, ,
For one thing,
back to the first of
thanks to lack of
the Rayne dynasty to
steady work I
come out to the
have a lot more
coast from Texas, a
time on my hands
hundred years ago,
for looking
when Los Perdiots
under surfaces,
was barely a town,
outside the
let alone the city of
carefully
the lost it was fated
controlled
to become.
stories Rayne’s
newspapers tell.