Chapter NineteenThe coroner's jury readied to march in with its recommendations in a few hours time. Teddy assured me that he and Dusty would cover for me if they broke before I returned from Brigsby. Having a small reporting staff limited the amount of ground you could cover and I appreciated Teddy letting me go off on my own course for an afternoon.
The clouds and humidity of the day before had instantly dried up as if god had lowered a vast nozzle from the sky and turned it on maximum, vacuuming the wet into the heavens. The air swirled dry as a bone with that brittle kind of light that flattered no one. The kind of day where all is revealed.
I drove by the record store to see if I could catch a glimpse of Bev before heading out of town but it remained closed, not due to open for an h
