Bread Upon the Waters
“Even though he had the day off, the school rule was that the boy had to be back by seven o’clock. But Strand wasn’t going to put him on report as he was supposed to do. Rollins had enough on his mind without being called into the headmaster’s office to explain his absence.
Strand didn’t like to speculate on what Rollins might be doing in Waterbury in his attempt to get Romero out of jail. The manner in which he had spoken of the people he might see who knew how to handle matters like that had m...ade it plain that Rollins was not intending to apply for a loan at a bank or sell stock to make up the amount of the bail. Strand had a confused notion that Rollins was speaking of people who were not quite within the law or were frankly outside it, people who in return for a favor given to Rollins would certainly demand a greater favor in return. Scenarios of bribery, numbers running, arson, all the categories of ghetto crime with which readers of newspapers and watchers of television had become sadly familiar, ran through Strand’s mind as he sat decorously at the dinner table with the scrubbed and politely dressed boys who, at least at table, remembered the manners their nurses and mothers had drummed into them.MoreLess
Strand didn’t like to speculate on what Rollins might be doing in Waterbury in his attempt to get Romero out of jail. The manner in which he had spoken of the people he might see who knew how to handle matters like that had m...ade it plain that Rollins was not intending to apply for a loan at a bank or sell stock to make up the amount of the bail. Strand had a confused notion that Rollins was speaking of people who were not quite within the law or were frankly outside it, people who in return for a favor given to Rollins would certainly demand a greater favor in return. Scenarios of bribery, numbers running, arson, all the categories of ghetto crime with which readers of newspapers and watchers of television had become sadly familiar, ran through Strand’s mind as he sat decorously at the dinner table with the scrubbed and politely dressed boys who, at least at table, remembered the manners their nurses and mothers had drummed into them.MoreLess
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