Fifteen Years After My Father Changed the Locks, He Seated Me at Table Twenty-Two
And find me a notary who isn’t related to anybody in this town.”
We came out of the library at ten.
The band had started again, a slow number, and four couples were on the dance floor.
Gerald was waiting at the double doors with his jacket buttoned and his tie straightened, as though the last hour had not happened at all.
He stepped into my path so I had to stop.
“You’ll go now,” he said.
“Out the side door.
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