he’ll take a nap. One time—I remember the two of them asleep near the pool. This little odd couple sprawled out on the grass. Just two little kids.” She stared at me with those gray eyes of hers and she started to cry. She had been trying hard to control herself, but finally had to let go. However reluctant I may have been at first, I was becoming a flesh-and-blood part of the terrible case. I felt for the Dunnes and the Goldbergs.

