Strange Highways Page 75


"You haven't asked," he said as they rolled through the night.


"I never will."


"He's dead."


She said nothing.


"I think it was the right thing."


"It was a door you had to go through, whether you wanted to or not," she said.


"Only the Karneses can connect me to him, and they're never going to talk. The cops can't nail me for it."


"Anyway," she said, "you'll make your own punishment."


A full moon rode the night sky. He stared at its cratered face, trying to read the future in the destruction of the past.


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