CHAPTER 18
Who said a little learning was a dangerous thing? Was knowledge dangerous, too? If so, what was a lot of knowledge, more or less dangerous? And if the knowledge was related but disconnected, what good was it at all?
I clutched the keys Vonette had given me and slumped behind the wheel of the Kormans’ old green Chrysler station wagon, trying to put things in place. Vonette’s first child had been Bebe Hollenbeck. Bebe had also been a student of Laura Smiley’s when the Kormans and Laura had lived in Illinois. According to Vonette, Fritz Korman had seduced Bebe when she was sixteen. And Bebe had drunk herself to death.
Then, Fritz Niebold Korman had moved to Colorado, bringing with him Vonette and a young John Richard. Was the practice the reason? According to the torn newspaper
