The Bass Wore Scales (The Liturgical Mysteries) by Mark Schweizer

Author:Mark Schweizer [Schweizer, Mark]
Format: mobi
Publisher: St. James Music Press
Published: 2010-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

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“Junior’s coming back through town,” said Billy Hixon.

“What for?” asked Meg. We were sitting in the park, enjoying a mid-morning coffee as Billy drove up on his golf cart. Billy spent most of the summer driving all over the downtown area, checking on his landscaping crew.

“He won last Sunday!”

“Yeah, we heard,” said Meg. “What? Does he need another blessing?”

“Indeed he does,” answered Billy. “You know how these guys are. Superstitious. If something’s working for them, they’re not about to change anything until it stops working. I know one guy who always wears one red sock and keeps an old fingernail from his dead crew chief in his pocket.”

“Eeeww,” said Meg.

“You think that’s bad,” continued Billy, now enjoying his role as purveyor of disgusting trivia, “there’s this other guy…”

“Enough!” said Meg.

“Okay, okay,” laughed Billy. “I’m just sayin’ that once these guys latch onto something, it’s going to be hard to get them to give up on it.”

“So, anyway,” I interrupted, “Junior’s coming back in today?”

“This afternoon. He’s just stopping for a few minutes. He’s got to get down to Darlington, South Carolina, for the next race.”

“Did you tell Gaylen?”

“Yeah. She’s fine with it, although she’s not going to get all gussied up. Just a simple cassock. She says she’ll come out and bless it on the trailer. Give it a splash, pour the Holy Water in the radiator and say the blessing. There’ll be some media here, too. This is a big story for them.”

“I’m glad she agreed to do it,” said Meg. I nodded in agreement.

“He won last week, so Sunday’s service should be full. That’s the way it works. There’s no business like show business!”

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