Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke

Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781428102910
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

BELLO HAD GONE FIRST to Monarch Little’s home, located in a blue-collar neighborhood that was gradually becoming all black. A woman had been hanging wash in her backyard when she saw Bello come up the dirt driveway, the rottweiler straining at the leash he had double-wrapped around his fist. “You know where Mr. Little is?” he asked, smiling at her.

“No, suh,” she replied.

“You been out in the yard long? Or maybe at your kitchen window? Or maybe out on your gallery, pounding out your broom?” He was grinning at nothing now, his eyes roving about aimlessly, the dog stringing saliva into the dirt.

“He come in a while ago, then left again,” the woman replied. She was overweight, her dress blowing on her body like a tent, her arms wrapped with a skin infection that leached them of their color.

“Wasn’t driving that Firebird, though, was he? ’Cause it got burnt up,” Bello said.

She wasn’t going to reply, then she looked again at his face and felt the words break involuntarily from her throat. “He was wit’ his cousin, in a beat-up truck. It’s got boards stuck up on the sides to haul yard trash wit’.”

“Where they gone to?” Bello was still grinning, his eyes never quite lighting on her. He lifted up on the dog’s choke chain, tightening it until the dog stiffened and sat down in the dirt. “Tell me where he’s at. I owe him some money.”

“That corner where they always standing around under the tree. I heard them say they was going to the li’l sto’ there,” she said.

“The corner they sell dope at?”

“I don’t know nothing about that.”

“But that’s the corner you’re talking about, isn’t it?”

“Yes, suh.”

“If I don’t find him, you don’t need to tell him I was here, do you?”

“No, suh,” she replied, shaking her head quickly.

“T’ank you,” he said. He turned the dog in a circle and walked it back to his Buick, making a snicking sound behind his teeth.

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