Chapter III.IX
“Oh girl”, the inspector said quietly, “Why are you leading me into your obscurity?” These words were addressed to emptiness, for Galbraith did not expect to hear an answer to them. He couldn’t get it anyway – Delia Yonce was buried at River View Cemetery, not far from the grave of first Portland’s female mayor. Her funeral went unnoticed by the town, because no one cared about some pharmaceutist’s daughter. Nobody wrote in The Asian Reporter a note “Under The X-acto Knife”, on her grave not even her most distant relative sat and especially not one of her classmates came there and asked with tears in their eyes “Delia, Delia, can you hear your friend?”. The only one who truly sympathized with the girl from those gathered at the farewell ceremony was Galbraith himself, who, after standing
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