CHAPTER NINEFaded Purple
Gamadge took his car soon after lunch and drove away from the Hunters’ farm. Mountain Ridge Road circled the top of the mountain in a rough arc, meeting the route from Avebury at a point midway between that town and a village called Stormer. He drove the four miles to the Radford farm without passing more than two small dwellings and an icehouse; dense woodland was on his left, rolling meadows on his right.
He passed the culvert above the stream, the Radford farm, the branch to the cottage, and Mrs. Simms’ place; after that he saw no more houses for three miles, but then came the scattered fringes of Avebury township. He stopped the car when he saw the top of a funerary monument showing to the left above a knoll.
Getting out, he walked up a grass-grown track to
