Driving out of the cemetery.
“Where do we go now?” Rob asks.
“We can’t go back to the Extend Stay America,” Sarah insists.
“What about The Harmony Hotel?” Edge says. “We can stop for more beer first.”
“And risk that little man at the counter calling in Mendel and Dernitz?” I say. “I don’t think so.”
“I’m hungry,” Edge says. “We missed lunch. Can’t we find a Denny’s and look at the skull there? We can sit way in the back along with the d**g dealers.”
I find myself laughing as the Jeep descends the wooded hill back down in the direction of the St. Agnes Cemetery. The idea is so preposterous, it’s brilliant. It’s like the setting for a scene in one of Edge’s hardboiled novels.
Rob stops the Jeep at the end of the cemetery road.
“There’s a Denny’s not far from the airport,” Sarah says.
