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where he prepared Bloody Marys for William
Bredforet. Luke worked for the Dingley Day and the
Smalter Pharmacy. He was on his way by bike to the
drugstore now, a little early. He wanted to get ahead in
the world. "Getting ahead" meant, to people who lived
there, getting out of Madder. Getting as far ahead as
you could meant going to California, as Sarah and
Orchid's brother, and Orchid's children one by one, had
all done; gone to where even if, as Sarah said, they
couldn't find steady work, at least they could get nice
tans. At least they'd gotten out, like Lucius Timothy
Madder, who'd had the place named after him, because
the men and women who worked in Madder's town
had seen him leave it.
When she missed the light at Ransom Circle, Sarah
MacDermott decided suddenly to be late for work in
order to give her friend Judith a ride. She'd just go
catch her at home before she left for the post office.
Sarah didn't like the idea of Judith's walking into town
when she might, for all anyone knew, have her stroke
on the way and fall into the Rampage and get swept