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He
bounced
the
passkey
up
and
down
,
up
and
down
,
smiling
reassuringly
at
them
,
watching
the
relief
spread
over
their
faces
,
and
thought
he
had
never
in
his
life
wanted
a
drink
so
badly
as
he
did
right
now
.
Late
that
afternoon
Jack
got
a
cot
from
the
first
-
floor
storage
room
and
put
it
in
the
corner
of
their
bedroom
.
Wendy
had
expected
that
the
boy
would
be
half
the
night
getting
to
sleep
,
but
Danny
was
nodding
before
"
The
Waltons
"
was
half
over
,
and
fifteen
minutes
after
they
had
tucked
biro
in
he
was
far
down
in
sleep
,
moveless
,
one
band
tucked
under
his
cheek
.
Wendy
sat
watching
him
,
holding
her
place
in
a
fat
paperback
copy
of
Cashelmara
with
one
finger
.
Jack
sat
at
his
desk
,
looking
at
his
play
.
"
Oh
shit
,
"
Jack
said
.
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Wendy
looked
up
from
her
contemplation
of
Danny
.
"
What
?
"
"
Nothing
.
"
He
looked
down
at
the
play
with
smoldering
ill
-
temper
.
How
could
he
have
thought
it
was
good
?
It
was
puerile
.
It
had
been
done
a
thousand
times
.
Worse
,
he
had
no
idea
how
to
finish
it
.
Once
it
had
seemed
simple
enough
.
Denker
,
in
a
fit
of
rage
,
seizes
the
poker
from
beside
the
fireplace
and
beats
saintly
Gary
to
death
.
Then
,
standing
spread
-
legged
over
the
body
,
the
bloody
poker
in
one
hand
,
he
screams
at
the
audience
:
"
It
’
s
here
somewhere
and
I
will
find
it
!
"
Then
,
as
the
lights
dim
and
the
curtain
is
slowly
drawn
,
the
audience
sees
Gary
’
s
body
face
down
on
the
forestage
as
Denker
strides
to
the
upstage
bookcase
and
feverishly
begins
pulling
books
from
the
shelves
,
looking
at
them
,
throwing
them
aside
.
He
bad
thought
it
was
something
old
enough
to
be
new
,
a
play
whose
novelty
alone
might
be
enough
to
see
it
through
a
successful
Broadway
run
:
a
tragedy
in
five
acts
.
But
,
in
addition
to
his
sudden
diversion
of
interest
to
the
Overlooks
history
,
something
else
had
happened
.
He
had
developed
opposing
feelings
about
his
characters
.
This
was
something
quite
new
.
Ordinarily
he
liked
all
of
his
characters
,
the
good
and
the
bad
.
He
was
glad
he
did
.
It
allowed
him
to
try
to
see
all
of
their
sides
and
understand
their
motivations
more
clearly
.
His
favorite
story
,
sold
to
a
small
southern
Maine
magazine
called
Contraband
for
copies
,
had
been
a
piece
called
"
The
Monkey
Is
Here
,
Paul
DeLong
.
"
It
had
been
about
a
child
molester
about
to
commit
suicide
in
his
furnished
room
.
The
child
molester
’
s
name
had
been
Paul
DeLong
,
Monkey
to
his
friends
.
Jack
had
liked
Monkey
very
much
.
He
sympathized
with
Monkey
’
s
bizarre
needs
.
knowing
that
Monkey
was
not
the
only
one
to
blame
for
the
three
rape
-
murders
in
his
past
.
There
had
been
bad
parents
,
the
father
a
beater
as
his
own
father
had
been
,
the
mother
a
limp
and
silent
dishrag
as
his
mother
had
been
.
A
homosexual
experience
in
grammar
school
.
Public
humiliation
.
Worse
experiences
in
high
school
and
college
.
He
had
been
arrested
and
sent
to
an
institution
after
exposing
himself
to
a
pair
of
little
girls
getting
off
a
school
bus
.
Worst
of
all
,
he
had
been
dismissed
from
the
institution
,
let
back
out
onto
the
streets
,
because
the
man
in
charge
had
decided
he
was
all
right
.
This
man
’
s
name
had
been
Grimmer
.
Grimmer
had
known
that
Monkey
DeLong
was
exhibiting
deviant
symptoms
,
but
he
had
written
the
good
,
hopeful
report
and
had
let
him
go
anyway
.
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Jack
liked
and
sympathized
with
Grimmer
,
too
.
Grimmer
had
to
run
an
understaffed
and
underfunded
institution
and
try
to
keep
the
whole
thing
together
with
spit
,
baling
wire
,
and
nickle
-
and
-
dime
appropriations
from
a
state
legislature
who
had
to
go
back
and
face
the
voters
.
Grimmer
knew
that
Monkey
could
interact
with
other
people
,
that
he
did
not
soil
his
pants
or
try
to
stab
his
fellow
inmates
with
the
scissors
.
He
did
not
think
he
was
Napoleon
.
The
staff
psychiatrist
in
charge
of
Monkey
’
s
case
thought
there
was
a
better
-
than
-
even
chance
that
Monkey
could
make
it
on
the
street
,
and
they
both
knew
that
the
longer
a
man
is
in
an
institution
the
more
he
comes
to
need
that
closed
environment
,
like
a
junkie
with
his
smack
.
And
meanwhile
,
people
were
knocking
down
the
doors
.
Paranoids
,
schizoids
,
cycloids
,
semicatatonics
,
men
who
claimed
to
have
gone
to
heaven
in
flying
saucers
,
women
who
had
burned
their
children
’
s
sex
organs
off
with
Bic
lighters
,
alcoholics
,
pyromaniacs
,
kleptomaniacs
,
manic
-
depressives
,
suicidals
.
Tough
old
world
,
baby
.
If
you
’
re
not
bolted
together
tightly
,
you
’
re
gonna
shake
,
rattle
,
and
roll
before
you
turn
thirty
.
Jack
could
sympathize
with
Grimmer
’
s
problem
.
He
could
sympathize
with
the
parents
of
the
murder
victims
.
With
the
murdered
children
themselves
,
of
course
.
And
with
Monkey
DeLong
.
Let
the
reader
lay
blame
.
In
those
days
he
hadn
’
t
wanted
to
judge
.
The
cloak
of
the
moralist
sat
badly
on
his
shoulders
.
He
had
started
The
Little
School
in
the
same
optimistic
vein
.
But
lately
he
had
begun
to
choose
up
sides
,
and
worse
still
,
he
had
come
to
loathe
his
hero
,
Gary
Benson
.
Originally
conceived
as
a
bright
boy
more
cursed
with
money
than
blessed
with
it
,
a
boy
who
wanted
more
than
anything
to
compile
a
good
record
so
he
could
go
to
a
good
university
because
he
had
earned
admission
and
not
because
his
father
had
pulled
strings
,
he
had
become
to
Jack
a
kind
of
simpering
Goody
Two
-
shoes
,
a
postulant
before
the
altar
of
knowledge
rather
than
a
sincere
acolyte
,
an
outward
paragon
of
Boy
Scout
virtues
,
inwardly
cynical
,
filled
not
with
real
brilliance
(
as
he
had
first
been
conceived
)
but
only
with
sly
animal
cunning
.
All
through
the
play
he
unfailingly
addressed
Denker
as
"
sir
,
"
just
as
Jack
had
taught
his
own
son
to
address
those
older
and
those
in
authority
as
"
sir
.
"
He
thought
that
Danny
used
the
word
quite
sincerely
,
and
Gary
Benson
as
originally
conceived
had
too
,
but
as
he
had
begun
Act
V
,
it
had
come
more
and
more
strongly
to
him
that
Gary
was
using
the
word
satirically
,
outwardly
straight
-
faced
while
the
Gary
Benson
inside
was
mugging
and
leering
at
Denker
.
Denker
,
who
had
never
had
any
of
the
things
Gary
had
.
Denker
,
who
had
had
to
work
all
his
life
just
to
become
head
of
a
single
little
school
.
Who
was
now
faced
with
ruin
over
this
handsome
,
innocent
-
seeming
rich
boy
who
had
cheated
on
his
Final
Composition
and
had
then
cunningly
covered
his
tracks
.