Chapter 4
Vaughn hung his head as the casket-lowering device clicked at each stop, automatically dropping the fancy wood-veneered coffin deeper and deeper into its grave. Frank had witnessed on several occasions how much it broke Vaughn’s heart to bury someone without loved ones in attendance. The poor departed soul about to be interred had no one but the mortuary employees standing around him, and Vaughn was beside himself.
“My dear Franklin,” he said. “I did not want your life to end like this. I always wished you would find someone to be with well until the golden years of life. It was very much Marion’s hope as well. I think you know how she adored you now. Though your interactions were rare, she did come to love you through my anecdotes and simply because her heart knows good. She a
