David Loehmann didn’t know what had or hadn’t happened outside of Pixie’s that night, but he’d heard a rumor at the courthouse that the girl, Lorraine, hadn’t even been there when the attack supposedly took place, that it was her married boyfriend on the town council who’d beaten her bloody. Heard another rumor that Robert Stephens didn’t frequent Pixie’s, a segregated roadhouse just outside the Gracetown border, either. Which would explain why Sheriff Posey hadn’t scoured the ends of the earth to try to bring Robert Stephens back to Gracetown to face justice. How hard would it be to find him,
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