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ought to have some Valium. I filled a prescription for
her yesterday."
Scaper spluttered his lips. "Doctors! All they can
think of to do is drug out the fact that life hurts." He
rubbed his ear behind the hearing aid. "Sure. Now I'll
go on over to Glover's Lane and give that child's mother
and father a couple of Valiums apiece, and then I'll tell
them we got to drive over to the hospital now because
your little girl that's not even twenty years old, that's
always been just as healthy and pretty as a picture, your
daughter's dead of a heart attack, and don't ask me to
tell you why, because there's no reason.
Tell them, just like Hanoi doesn't know and
Washington doesn't know what in goddamn hell
happened to your son, Bobby. Because there's no lousy
reason in this world that makes any sense at all."
Smalter patted the doctor's immense arm. "Otto.
She drowned.
No one was there, and she drowned. Why do you
say heart attack?"
"That child's been in swim camp up at the lake
every summer of her life, and she didn't drown in any