The Middle of NowhereThe local police found Konaté's car Sunday morning. It was registered in the name of the mining company, so they brought it back to the Chateau. The rain had washed away any traces of blood and no one had an explanation as to why it was there or where Konaté might be. But the longer he was missing, the more the police thought he might have done himself in in connection with the General being arrested. Or made it look like he had killed himself and gone back to Ghana to avoid the same charges the General was facing. The local explanation, the one passed around the kitchen, was that he had stopped his car at the top of the hill to relieve himself and the Spirits pushed him off the cliff into the river. They believed that either the Spirits were unhappy because Konaté, as
