Michael Malone - Weebly

as she went into the wet blind curve at the bottom of
High Street.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," blurted
the headmaster, who was almost as frightened as he'd
been the night the two Puerto Ricans had taken him
back into the kitchen of His Fancy Club, where they
had demanded his watch, sports coat, and cash. He
had to stop drinking.
After Ernest Ransom thanked and paid and placed
in the town's only taxi Mrs. Maynard "Chinkie" Henry,
after he complimented Wanda on her dinner and his
wife on her dinner party, he swung open his French
windows onto a starry night. Across his landscaped
lawn the full, wet trees gleamed like coal. On the other
side of Elizabeth Circle, lights were on in the third floor
of Ramona Dingley's monstrous Victorian house.
Sammy Smalter, who lived there with her, stayed up
until all hours. Ransom considered this habit
unorthodox, and therefore suspicious.
He decided on a walk. Something troubled him. It
had nothing to do with Beanie Abernathy's love flight,