Justice at Risk by Wilson John Morgan

Author:Wilson, John Morgan [Wilson, John Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay & Lesbian
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2008-10-01T06:00:00+00:00

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Templeton was waiting for me at the spot where she’d dropped me off, as I climbed the hill past the Fairchild mansion. I heard the lock on the passenger door electronically unlatch, opened the door, and slid in.

“How did your interview with Mrs. Fairchild go?”

Templeton switched on the ignition and shifted into drive.

“Reasonably well, if I were writing a puff piece. She’s very gracious but also keeps a lot to herself. She seemed to know how to give me just enough, while deflecting any questions that started to scratch the surface. I taped our conversation. You’re welcome to listen to it at some point, if you’d like.”

“I might do that. Was she wearing red?”

“Head to foot.”

She turned the wheel and swung away from the curb in a wide arc.

“How about you, Justice? Learn anything interesting?”

“I learned that Rose Fairchild is quite generous to people who do her a good turn. Also, that bad things do happen up here.”

“Care to be more specific?”

As Templeton pointed the car downhill, I told her briefly about what Uncle Matthew had done to little Taylor when he was especially vulnerable after his father’s death.

“When we get back to the office, I’ll ask Katie Nakamura to see what’s become of Matthew Fairchild. He might even be worth an interview, if we can arrange it.”

We passed the big gates and ascending driveway of the Fairchild place, and could see a gray-haired woman in red sitting behind the rail of a second-story verandah. Rose Fairchild gazed out across the rolling slopes of her rambling property, presiding over her private world, perhaps studying us as we went by.

I wondered if she might also be recalling all those Easter parties of long ago, and hearing the laughter of the children as they scampered up and down the lawns, when her husband was still alive, her son still innocent, her private world still safe and intact.

I wondered about a lot of things in Rose Fairchild’s life as we wound our way out of the Arroyo Seco, down into the flats of the city, back to the world of weeds, litter, and discordant voices.

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