“He climbed off the bunk, left the cell, and limped up the short hallway barefoot and in his union suit, but before he got there the bell stopped ringing and he heard Ray Dooley pick up the instrument and talk. Rev was near the lavatory at this point. He went in, and having lowered the trapdoor in his underwear, sat down on the throne and began to grunt. Daylight was coming through the etched-glass window above him. He proved to be constipated, and before long he rose and returned to the cell. H...e felt the effects of the punishment he had taken the night before: he was sore all over and half-lame. He was getting into his clothes when Ray came to the doorway. “Oh, you’re up. Clive just give me a call. He says he’s got quite a shiner from that there door he walked into yesterday, and he don’t think it looks good for the chief of police to be seen like ‘at, and he wants me to stay on duty. Ordinarily I’d be going to work right now onna first shift down the mill.” Before going to sleep the night before, Rev had put his teeth into a tin cup full of water, on the floor beneath the bunk.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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