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Like his only child, Polly, Hedgerow was thin and
wore glasses; unlike her, the widower's hair, step, and
personality no longer had much spring. Still, Madderites
admired him because he had married into a good
Dingley Falls family when he married Pauline Moffat,
and because they thought he owned Hedgerow Realty
Company, which Carl Marco, Sr., really owned.
Marco, in fact, who everyone assumed owned only a
supermarket, even owned much of Hedgerow Realty's
real estate. And Ernest Ransom's bank owned the
Hedgerow home. Of major purchases, all that Cecil
Hedgerow owned was a very expensive violin, a car
that he hated, and a motorboat that he loved. He was a
religious fly-caster; the grail that he worshiped and
pursued was the smallmouth black bass, and every
weekend in his aluminum boat he renewed his quest on
Lake Pissinowno. In the past, Lance Abernathy had
sometimes swooped down, in the Piper Cub he rented
on Saturdays, to buzz Hedgerow—a surprise attack
that had never ceased to terrify the fisherman or to
delight the pilot.
Hedgerow interrupted Lance's conversation with