FortyCaptain Ambrose pilots his cabin cruiser through the bayou with Michael as his passenger, taking the same route he took with the bayou craft when he handed the Warren's baby girl over to strangers and an unknown fate. They pass a small boat with a fisherman hoisting a crate of oysters from the water. The fisherman waves and Ambrose acknowledges him.
“That would be James Daisy harvestin' his oysters,” Ambrose says. “Some of the year, he traps muskrat. Makes a good livin' and a zesty gumbo.”
Michael grimaces at the visual image of a muskrat stew.
A little farther upstream, the launch passes a small, neat country house with modern laundry equipment outside on the porch. A Cajun woman works a loom of brown patterned cloth while she watches television. She waves at Ambrose, and he retur
