The Kingdom of Dog
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Things settled back to normal at Eastern, though with one big difference: the team of Steve and Rochester added a new member, and the three of us spent a lot of time together, going to photography exhibits, enjoying home-cooked dinners, and watching movies on my new big-screen TV.
Richard Seville was arraigned for the murders of Joe Dagorian and Perpetua Kaufman. I didn’t mention the case, or my part in it, to Barbara when I saw her in the technical writing class. Lou Segusi began volunteering with the campus writing center, and he told me he was considering going on to get a master’s degree so he could become an English teacher. He moved in with a friend who had an apartment off-campus for the rest of the term.
Tony Rinaldi got a search warrant for Juan and Jose’s room, based on the steroids Rochester found and Mike MacCormac’s confession that he had been buying from them. Babson had a long talk with Mike, and Babson said he could keep his job if he submitted to periodic drug tests.
Juan and Jose rolled on the dealer who had been supplying them with the steroids, back in their home town of Jersey City. They were both released on bail, but because they had been selling to fellow students as well as Mike, they were both expelled. I was glad to see them go, and I’m sure Lou was, too. A couple of weeks later, after his cast was off, a pretty, dark-haired girl met him outside the classroom as the tech writing class was finishing. He introduced her as Desiree.
Norah Leedom announced that she was retiring from Eastern at the end of the semester; she was taking the money from the sale of the land she and Joe had owned in Vermont and financing a long trip overseas. She had a book in mind, she said, about Joe and their life together. I asked if it would include the details of the murder and she said, “No, I’ll leave that to some mystery writer.”