Chapter 60
Sally the secretary was happy to see me, but as usual she was the only one. She gave me a big and awkward hug as soon as I came in through the door, while Grimassi and Violet did their best to look at anything else. Bruce Putnam walked by, shook his head in a gesture of vague commiseration, and made a point of being busy.
I didn’t care. I had never been anything but an exile here, and would never be anything but an exile here. It’s better to see the truth than to refuse to see it, better to name it for what it is than to refuse to name it.
Nelson Dover stuck his head out. “Holder. It’s you. Sit tight for a little bit, Alvin’s here. She needs to talk to you about the status of the inquiry.”
He disappeared into his office like a turtle pulling its head back into its shell. I b
