Kek Huuygens, Smuggler

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications for permission to reprint the stories listed:

Argosy for “Merry Go Round,” Counter Intelligence,” and “The Hochmann Miniatures.”

MD for “A Matter of Honor” and “The Collector.”

New American Library for “Sweet Music,” portions of which appeared in the novel The Hochmann Miniatures.

Playboy for “The Wager.”

One of the most common questions put to writers at cocktail parties is, “Where do you get your ideas?” Well, other than rarely getting them at cocktail parties, most writers have no idea where they get their ideas. On a few occasions when they do remember where they got a particular inspiration, it usually stays with them a long time.

It was this way with Kek Huuygens.

I was living in Rio de Janeiro at the time, and enjoying it very much, spending my hours divided about equally between golf and trying to think up workable plots so that my writing could sustain my sport habit, not to mention my family. This one day, after a round at the Gavea Country Club, I was sitting on the veranda with my partner of the day, a man named Les Weldon, sipping a gin tonic, when he turned to me and said sadly, “Old So-and-so-died yesterday.”

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