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he preferred in exchange for his protection), Maynard
Henry had seen her and begun precipitously to court
her. When Grabaski had responded with a proprietary
claim about the beautiful nineteen-year-old girl, Henry
had broken a broom over Victor's back and kicked his
cousin Karl unconscious while Chin Lam was running
from the trailer to summon help for him.
They had married. On her part it was an act as full
of meaning and as irrelevant as the act of a man falling
off a cliff who grabs at the one hand reaching over the
edge to him. Henry was her lifeline.
Since they had been together, she had been equally
terrified by the thought of his violence should she
displease him and of her helplessness should he (who
cared for her and spoke some part of her language)
disappear. His arrest, for which she seemed to be
responsible, had felt to Chin Lam so like another deadly
fall through space that she had clutched again at the air
above her and felt to her shock what Maynard had not
wished her to find—other hands besides his own held
out to her.
And now the thin, veiny hands of Prudence Lattice