Michael Malone - Weebly

Mary, and of Bill Deeds—maneuvers they might have
forgone had they realized what spice they added to
Bredforet's game) had enjoyed innumerable brief affairs
among the general delights of being a knight on the
town. So much a bachelor at heart was Bredforet that
he had no notion of fatherhood, despite the fact that he
had parenthetically fathered three illegitimate children:
one son in Paris, another in Singapore, and one
daughter, now forty-two years old, right here in Dingley
Falls.
A judge had divorced Mr. and Mrs. Limus Barnum,
at Mrs. Barnum's request, on the grounds of her
husband's mental cruelty and physical abuse. Lime had
had to pay the bitch alimony and figured that broken
nose he'd given her had cost him a good $15,000 (at
$400 a month for three years, plus legal fees) before
she got tired of milking him and married some other
stupid sucker. He'd never be sap enough to marry
another one, that was for sure.
Limus Barnum lived alone in the smallest and
newest house in Glover's Lane. He had bought it in
1961 at the same time he'd bought the antiques store