As he was coming back into the house after his trip to Waltersburg, something kept nagging at Doug. Canon Smathers had reminded him of someone, but he couldn’t think who. So he began to work on his plan to move the disagreement “to the next level.”
Sure enough, as he was thinking about options, it popped into his head: Uriah Heep! Dickens’ tall, redheaded sycophant squirmed with obsequiousness so long as he was an underling. When he got some power, he became arrogant. Yeah, that was Smathers, all right. But Doug was damned if he was going to play David Copperfield for the bishop.
He continued to think about his plan, even to draft something in his mind.
When he got home, he found Stan’s sexy red car in his driveway. Stan had had a key to Doug’s house from the time they became lovers.
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