Diamond
““I’m always right,” he said. “I just don’t always know it.”Twila sighed as Dooley continued his interrogation.“Who watched you, honey? Is it someone you’re afraid of? Cause if it is, you just tell me who’s bothering you and I’ll kill the sucker.”“He’d never hurt me,” she whispered.What she wanted was to go to bed and sleep through this lifetime until it was time to start over. She’d gotten as far in this one as she could go alone.“Girl!” Dooley pulled her away and shook her gently. “Get hold of... yourself and talk to me. I can’t help you if you don’t talk.”Diamond shuddered and blinked, staring blankly at Dooley and Twila as if coming out of a trance.“What happened?” she asked.“I guess you fainted,” Dooley said. “I found you over there by the wall.”In that instant she remembered the hat, and began to look around the room for it. When she saw it lying on the floor beside Melvin’s desk, she disentangled herself from Dooley and headed for it with single-minded intent.Puzzled by her odd behavior, Twila and Dooley watched as she picked up the hat, brushed away a speck of lint, and then carefully hung it on the knob of the chair where she’d found it.“He’ll be wanting it back,”MoreLess
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