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The
wind
whined
around
the
eaves
,
and
the
trees
on
the
other
side
of
the
road
shook
their
leaves
in
hypnotic
patterns
.
His
mind
went
back
to
that
night
around
the
Defiant
stove
in
the
coupling
shed
,
which
had
stood
right
where
the
Evarts
Furniture
Mart
stood
in
Brewer
now
.
They
had
talked
the
night
away
,
he
and
George
and
Rene
Michaud
,
and
now
he
was
the
only
one
left
--
Rene
crushed
between
two
boxcars
on
a
stormy
night
in
March
of
1939
,
George
Chapin
dead
of
a
heart
attack
just
last
year
.
Of
so
many
,
he
was
the
only
one
left
,
and
the
old
get
stupid
.
Sometimes
the
stupidity
masquerades
as
kindness
,
and
sometimes
it
masquerades
as
pride
--
a
need
to
tell
old
secrets
,
to
pass
things
on
,
to
pour
from
the
old
glass
to
the
new
one
,
to
...
So
dis
Jew
peddler
come
in
and
he
say
"
I
got
sumpin
you
never
seen
before
.
These
pos
'
cards
,
dey
jus
look
like
wimmin
in
bathin
suits
until
you
rub
dem
wit
a
wet
cloth
,
and
den
--
"
Jud
's
head
nodded
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His
chin
settled
slowly
,
gently
,
against
his
chest
.
"
--
dey
's
as
nakid
as
the
day
dey
was
born
!
But
when
dey
dry
,
the
clo'es
,
dey
come
back
on
!
And
dat
ai
n't
all
I
got
--
"
Rene
telling
this
story
in
the
coupling
shed
,
leaning
forward
,
smiling
,
and
Jud
holds
the
bottle
--
he
feels
the
bottle
and
his
hand
closes
around
it
on
thin
air
.
In
the
ashtray
,
the
cigarette
ash
on
the
end
of
the
cigarette
grew
longer
.
At
last
it
tipped
forward
into
the
ashtray
and
burned
out
,
its
shape
recalled
in
the
neat
roll
of
ash
like
a
rune
.
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Jud
slept
.
And
when
the
taillights
flashed
outside
and
Louis
turned
the
Honda
Civic
into
his
driveway
some
forty
minutes
later
and
drove
it
into
the
garage
,
Jud
did
not
hear
,
stir
,
or
awaken
,
any
more
than
Peter
awoke
when
the
Roman
soldiers
came
to
take
a
tramp
named
Jesus
into
their
custody
.
Louis
found
a
fresh
dispenser
of
strapping
tape
in
one
of
the
kitchen
drawers
,
and
there
was
a
coil
of
rope
in
the
corner
of
the
garage
near
last
winter
's
snow
tires
.
He
used
the
tape
to
bind
the
pick
and
shovel
together
in
a
single
neat
bundle
and
the
rope
to
fashion
a
rough
sling
.