Leave it like this. The odors will attract scavengers. But he deserves burial. Does he? We can’t return to Peasy in these clothes, with our injuries. We’ll go to the river first. What about Clarice? That’s done. We can tell the sheriff we had to hurry back from the river because we saw a body in it. We’re too far from there. It’ll be hours before we get back. Do we tell the truth? That you killed him? Whatever you want. Did you know he was evil? Did you know? Theo returned last month. When I asked him why he’d given up on the ministry, he rambled on an entire afternoon about preachers who want to be fed but won’t cook, religious scholars who offer scriptural exegesis but neglect common sense, evangelists who pass the plate with one hand and write IOUs with the other, sermons that caution
