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The day after the coroner’s office announced its findings, the case got a paragraph on page twelve of the mainstream paper. A reporter from a paper in the community left a phone message he wanted a quote, but Eli hadn’t yet returned the call. He’d promised to buy Keiko a lavish lunch, but first he thought he should take care of old business and drop by the halfway house.
Vince greeted him with, “I take it all back. You won bigtime.”
“There’s talk of a settlement, which is best for the widow and her kids. And the politicians know that’s the way to keep things quiet and move on.”
“It won’t make you Mister Popular downtown,” Vince said. “You going back to chasing ambulances?”
“Victims’ rights might be an area. We’ll have to see.” Then he said, “I wish I had better news for Gabe.”
Odd
