The Diviner's Tale
“Besides, he wanted to meet the famous Laura Bryant. Her mother had returned my call, invited us to lunch, and given me directions to their house in Cold Spring. Morgan was gone to a tournament in Binghamton, where he would be staying overnight with the team, so this was my window. Not that I knew if I would achieve anything during another encounter with Laura, other than maybe finding some way to begin burying her doppelgänger, the hanged girl, and move on with the business of living.
For her p...art, Laura needed to thank me in person, so her mother said. I accepted the invitation, keeping to myself my doubts about having been directly responsible for saving her from peril. I had been a woman hired to do something she didn't finally accomplish, who saw something that wasn't there to see, and who happened in the meantime to stumble upon the whereabouts of someone she wasn't looking for. Hardly the biography of a savior.
We detoured, before crossing the Hudson, to a sculpture park set on hundreds of rolling green acres, Storm King, where we walked for an hour among towering I-beam cat's cradles, mysterious half-buried black monoliths, and burnished weldings of figures that Jonah compared to the Martians in War of the Worlds.MoreLess
For her p...art, Laura needed to thank me in person, so her mother said. I accepted the invitation, keeping to myself my doubts about having been directly responsible for saving her from peril. I had been a woman hired to do something she didn't finally accomplish, who saw something that wasn't there to see, and who happened in the meantime to stumble upon the whereabouts of someone she wasn't looking for. Hardly the biography of a savior.
We detoured, before crossing the Hudson, to a sculpture park set on hundreds of rolling green acres, Storm King, where we walked for an hour among towering I-beam cat's cradles, mysterious half-buried black monoliths, and burnished weldings of figures that Jonah compared to the Martians in War of the Worlds.MoreLess
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