by Jana DeLeon
“Not really,” Gertie said. “He could have been at the North Pole, or in prison, or living completely off-grid in the mountains of Tibet.”
“Tibet non-withstanding, why come back now?” I asked.
“Maybe he wants to be first man of Sinful,” Gertie said.
Ida Belle looked up and mumbled, probably praying.
“I don’t get it,” I said.
“Nobody gets it,” Ida Belle said.
“Especially Celia,” Gertie said. “She passed out right there in the middle of Francine’s. Tipped an entire tray over on Pastor Don.”
Carter stared back and forth from Ida Belle to Gertie, clearly dumbfounded and waiting for the punch line that wasn’t coming.
“But,” he said finally, “he never saw his daughter again, even at her own funeral. And he left his boat. I always thought he’d come back for that boat. I wonder where he’s been all this time.”
Ida Belle shook her head. “I don’t know, but I have the feeling things are about to get really interesting around here.”
“Good,” I said. “I was getting bored.”
The End
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