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other people to absorb the volubility that bounced
about inside her like popcorn against a pan lid, she had
chosen Judith in the eighth grade and would not give her
up. And, since Sarah's husband, Joel, was Chief John
"Hawk" Haig's assistant, the two women shared the law
as in-laws. That such was the full extent of their
commonality was an abyss over which Sarah
MacDermott could leap fearlessly because she had
never noticed the gap.
"Men and women, Jesus bless us." The gumchewing
Mrs. MacDermott now began, with her typical
preamble, to put Judith in touch with the day's gossip.
"Chinkie Henry was just in here with a black eye, proud
as the Pope she was of it too, if you ask me. A black
eye on a Orientaler, if you can picture that! She told
me, I had to ask her, that Maynard did it. Her own
husband. And, what's more, he rammed Raoul Treeca
right over Wild Oat Ridge, broke both his legs and
totally destroyed his Chevy pickup."
Judith Haig glanced up from her canned goods to
the cash register as Sarah, without once looking at
either, flawlessly rang up her carefully chosen