Batman Begins by Dennis O'Neil

Author:Dennis O'Neil [O'Neil, Dennis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345479464
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2005-07-29T21:14:52+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

At nine the next morning, Alfred telephoned the Gotham Times Society Page editor to report that Bruce Wayne, son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Wayne, had returned from an extended sojourn abroad and had taken up residence at the ancestral Wayne Manor.

By one that afternoon, eleven other news organizations had called and three local television stations had sent reporters and camera crews to interview Bruce, who took the calls and met with the newspeople. He smiled, chatted, showed them around the estate.

All the local papers ran brief items about Bruce’s return, though none of them were in the main news sections, and most of the local radio stations mentioned it during their hourly news breaks. One of the television outlets ignored the story completely and the other two ran it as thirty-second items right after the weather forecasts.

A television reporter named Kassie Cane told her boyfriend why Bruce Wayne’s return got so little play.

“There was no way we could make a story of it,” Kassie said. “I mean, I wanted to . . . good-looking guy, richer than Croesus, return of the prodigal, all that . . . But I swear, talking to him is like talking to a wall. The lights are on but nobody’s home. He was nice, even kind of sweet, and he obviously wanted to please us, but there was no personality there.”

“Who’s Croesus?” her boyfriend asked.

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