White Doves At Morning: a Dave Robicheaux Novel
“She bathed in the iron tub behind Abigail Dowling's cottage, then put back on the same clothes she had worn before the attack and sat alone in the darkness, looking out on the street until Abigail returned home. "What happened?" Abigail asked, staring at the splintered door in the kitchen."Three men broke in and raped me," Flower replied. "Federals broke in here? You were ra""They were civilians. They were looking for you. They took me instead.""Oh, Flower.""What one man more than any other wa...nts to hurt you? A man who hates you, who's cruel through and through?" "I don't know." "Yes, you do," Flower said."Rufus Atkins threatened me. Out there, in the street. Yesterday," Abigail said.Flower nodded her head."I saw him give money to three men behind Carrie LaRose's house earlier today.""That doesn't prove anything.""Yes, it does. I saw a man's yellow teeth under his mask. I heard the coins clink in their pants. It was them.""Are you hurt inside?""They hurt me everywhere," she replied.She refused to use the bed Abigail offered her and sat in the chair all night.MoreLess
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