Some People Talk with God by John Enright

Author:John Enright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yucca Publishing
Published: 2016-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Didn’t anyone else find it demeaning leaving a message on a machine with a robot voice? “The person with whom you wish to speak deems herself too important to talk with you now at your convenience. Take a knee and whisper your supplication after the rude noise, and we’ll see.” Dominick refused to leave messages on people’s machines. He called Morgan’s number twice on Tuesday morning and got just her machine or service or voice mail or whatever they called it. He wanted his car back. He wanted out of the Hotel St. George, out of lovely Hudson, out of the Hudson Valley altogether. Why wasn’t he already on the Vineyard?

He called Vernon, who had no answering robots, to come pick him up and take him back to Catskill to see about his car. Morgan had said be patient. His patience had expired. He could be such a passive wuss sometimes. It was time to move on. Vernon came and picked him up, and they headed back to Catskill. At the Greene County Sheriff’s Office no one seemed to know where his car was until Dominick found the detective who had questioned him, who told him the lab boys hadn’t released it yet. Dominick gave him the telephone number of his hotel.

“That’s over in Hudson, isn’t it?” the detective said. “I thought I told you not to leave the county. Hudson is in Columbia County.”

“There were no rooms available here in Catskill,” Dominick said. Was this about to go Kafka on him?

“They found the girl’s fingerprints all over the car, including the back seat.”

“I told you she took the car.”

“They found her hair in the back seat. There were blood stains on the back seat as well. We don’t know if she was a virgin or not.”

“The blood is mine,” Dominick said, pointing to his many-colored brow.

“Did she do that to you defending herself?”

“No, Susan did not do this to me. Look, I just came here to inquire about my car. If you have further questions for me, I’d rather have my lawyer present.”

“Well, I still don’t have enough to hold you on, but if you flee we’ll catch you and that will be another charge.” Having authority meant getting to make threats.

Vernon had stayed out in his car. “I was getting a bit nervous there,” he said when Dominick rejoined him. “I don’t trust those guys. Where to?”

“I have to make some photocopies. Where would be the best place?”

“You mean like Xerox? Probably the library’s easiest.” The public library was only a few blocks away, a square brick civic building from an earlier age on a quiet side street. Vernon again waited in the car.

There were a dozen or so pages of the papers from the trunk that Dominick wanted copies of, primarily printed clippings and pages from old newspapers plus a couple of pages of sermon drafts. He had decided to return the stash and the ledger to where he had found them. He had no claim to them.

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