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Epigraph

1   Andy Buckley said, “Jesus . . .

2   I don’t know that it’s my story . . .

3   Earlier that same night . . .

4   We laid the two bodies . . .

5   I was up a little before noon . . .

6   “When I told him I was out . . .

7   Sunday morning I looked . . .

8   If only.

9   I was questioned at length . . .

10   “I suppose I was in shock . . .

11   “A black man,” Mick said . . .

12   I couldn’t have been out . . .

13   “He saved my life,” I said.

14   I dropped off right away . . .

15   “George Wister’s not a bad . . .

16   I went home, entering as . . .

17   “Matthew Scudder,” Danny . . .

18   George Wister had called . . .

19   I knew Mick would know . . .

20   There may have been . . .

21   “Direct pressure on the . . .

22   I got a few hours on the couch.

23   I waited in the lobby . . .

24   “How old was he, this man . . .

25   I was home and in bed . . .

26   I didn’t want to stay for dinner.

27   “A son to avenge him,” Mick said.

28   “Ah, ‘tis I again, Mrs. Buckley . . .

29   Andy took the Grand . . .

30   “What choice did I have?

31   We were on his land from . . .

32   “We’ve another great . . .

33   I stood at the rear of the house.

34   We threw our guns into . . .

35   “I’ll remind you,” Ray Gruliow . . .


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By Lawrence Block

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