Cold Moon Page #4

Nothing.

Well, I've been keeping daddy

company all evening.

We've been watching television

and talking.

He kept asking me

what I wanted.

I just didn't feel like

being alone.

Why don't you come up

and sleep in my room

again tonight?

The rollaway bed's

still up there.

Well, all day I've been

half expecting Ted hale

to drive up with a pair

of handcuffs

in the rearview mirror.

Nobody came.

Nobody called.

Everything's gonna

be all right.

Warren Perry's in jail.

All the attention

focused on him.

They got no reason

to come look at us.

In another week,

you're gonna forget

what really happened.

You'll be like everybody else

in this town,

think it was Warren Perry

that murdered that old woman

and Jerry Larkin.

- You think so?

- Yeah, boy.

Morning.

Morning.

Picked these up

from your apartment.

Breakfast from the diner.

Thanks, sheriff.

You okay?

Yeah.

You?

Sheriff.

You're not gonna believe this.

I imagine it'd go easier,

quieter now that they're

not here anymore.

I just want to get another step

between you and me

and the dummy corporation

in mobile.

I also revised

the loan paperwork,

made sure that they missed their

payments for the last year.

You know,

Ginny and I are gonna be having

dinner tonight

at the white horse.

Why don't you and Ben come,

make it the four of us?

We're partners now in this,

and, I don't know,

maybe other things.

Feel like you and Ginny

ought to make it up between you.

You're right, Ginny and i

ought to make it up.

Though I can't think

of anything that much

that's been keeping us apart.

Nobody's gonna get hurt with

the deal you and i put together.

Ginny's gonna benefit

from it, too.

If their objective

were to steal corpses,

well, they got that.

So why take the time

to destroy the coffins

and spread them halfway

around the cemetery?

Grave robbers?

Vandals?

And what do they want

with the corpses?

Well, I just don't know what

we're gonna do with you, Ben.

You're a grown man and you just

don't do a thing in the world.

Nathan, you and I are gonna

have to put our heads together

and come up with something

that he's good at.

Well, what we need to do

is find someone to pay him

for lying in the sun 'cause he's

awfully good at that.

You're gonna take that

from him?

He's kinda right.

Strawberry shortcake and

supreme apple pie la mode.

Thank you, darlin'.

Well, it's only

a matter of time

before you

have to go to work.

Well, I guess so.

Nathan? You okay?

Nathan!

Is there anything

i can get you, sir?

Everything all right...

I'm sorry,

i think it's his medication.

We got to get

out of here.

Why did you throttle

that girl?

Ben, sit here.

Think you really

ought have it that hot?

Can't be good for you.

I gotta get rid of

the tenseness in my joints.

- What's wrong?

- What?

What's wrong?

- What are you talking about?

- What are you looking at?

Nothing, I'm not looking

at a blessed thing.

How you feel about

going to duval

for the rest of the summer?

Just you and me.

It's time to rest,

everything

that's happened and all.

Think I'd like that.

What's daddy gonna say?

Belinda?

I've been calling.

Honey?

Belinda?

Sheriff hale?

Yes.

This is Derek

from mobile energy.

I know it's kinda of late,

but, uh, we've been offshore.

I received your message

and felt

it was kinda of an emergency,

so I figured I'd try you.

Yes, um...

I'm investing a murder

and, uh...

Was wondering when's the

last time you might've spoken

to Evelyn Larkin?

Oh,

it's been some time now.

We've been dealing

with her representative.

And, uh,

who might that be?

A gentleman

named Nathan redfield.

I'm worried about Mr. red.

You got every right

in the world to be worried.

Why?

Wait, do you think he...

Yeah.

You are just telling me

this now?

I didn't have enough

to go on, Ginny.

Nathan just about ripped

that girl's shoulders

off her back in front

of 40 paying customers.

Looked like he was ready

to do worse.

So, yeah. Now.

He's splashing

me with water.

Daddy, we gotta talk

for a minute.

Y'all just get back?

Yeah, we gotta talk

to daddy for a bit.

But you can't stay 'cause

we gotta talk private.

What are you trying to say to me

that miss pie can't hear?

Daddy, we gotta talk

family stuff.

Don't really interest

belinda that much.

I never heard of such

secret goings-on.

But I'm gonna try

my new bathing suit.

Daddy, Ben and I are gonna

go to duval

for the rest of the summer.

You can't do it.

You're president

of the bank.

You begged me

to make you president,

and now you're coming

in here telling me

you're gonna take off?!

In the middle

of the yearly audit?

And the leave the place

to rack and ruin?!

The bank is not gonna go

to rack and ruin.

- Just so tired, daddy.

- You don't look tired.

You know what kind of tired

I'm talking about.

You mean you're about

to have a nervous breakdown,

and that's why you're

going to duval?

We just gotta get out

of here for a bit.

You up to something?

What's he up to, Ben?

Ben, why don't you go

check on belinda?

You go away to duval

or wherever it is

you're really going.

But I'm gonna appoint

a new president.

You won't ever set foot

in cpm again.

Now, you go off.

You will never see me again.

You will never see

a penny...

Of my money.

You understand?

I don't want you

to catch a chill, daddy.

"I have been sick

for the past two years",

and there's no hope

of me ever getting any better,

constantly tortured

with pain in my spine,

and it has become

unbearable.

I want to thank Nina

and belinda hale

for nursing me.

If it hadn't been for them,

I would've killed myself

a long time ago.

Nathan,

when you read this,

I want you to make

provisions for both of them

out of the money

i have left you.

Fix it so that Nina doesn't

ever have to work again,

and see to it that miss pie

"can go to any nursing school

that she wants."

Ginny's on the way over

right now

with Nina to get Mr. red

out of the house.

Nathan's got something

pressing on his brain.

So we just thought it best

to get Mr. red out of there.

If belinda's there,

does Ginny know enough

- to get her out, too?

- She'll get her out.

Oh, I don't like this.

Who's there?

Miss pie?

Shh! Mr. red, I got

to get you out of here.

- What are you...

- you think I ask you to come away with me

in the dark

if I just didn't have to?

- You need to hurry!

- What?

Ginny?

- Shh!

- Don't you worry about a thing.

We're gonna get you

right back here

just as soon as we can.

Miss pie.

Well, well.

Miss pie.

Nathan, what the hell

do you think you're doing?!

Damn it.

Ow.

Damn it, Nathan.

You hurt me.

You st...

Y thought you were...

You thought what?

What, that I was a burglar?

How many burglars

do you see

wearing a two-piece

bathing suit?

I'm sorry.

Come on, let's go back out

by the pool.

We've been in for a while.

You can see why I need

a little vacation, huh?

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