Bag of Bones Page #5

Get out of the road!

[Horn honks]

Hey, get out of here!

Come on, come on!

What are you doing?

Ky!

Ky?

Is that your name?

Like Kya?

- [Panting]

- That's my mommy.

Sweetheart, what were you thinking?

- I wanted to go swimming!

- [Sighs]

Her name's Kya?

Kyra, but sometimes I call her Ky.

Oh.

- I'm... I'm Mattie Devore.

- Hi, Mattie.

- I'm not a bad mother. I swear to God.

- No, I didn't say you were.

Please don't mention this to anybody.

We're... we're going through

a little bit of a hard time.

Yeah, well, I think

it's a little late for that.

Yeah.

Well, thanks for saving

my little girl.

I guess God sent you here

at the right time.

God's got nothing to do with it.

I was just going to Buddy

Jellison's for a hamburger.

[Both chuckle]

This is a little bit weird

for me, but, uh,

you're one of my favorite writers.

And I can't believe you just

showed up out of nowhere

and saved my little girl!

Oh, thank you.

And you know who I am?

Of course.

You, uh, inherited

that house on the lake,

but you haven't been back since...

Yeah, since my wife died.

[Quietly] Yeah.

Well, um, you take care

of yourself now, okay?

Stay out of the road.

Nice to meet you, Mattie.

Nice to meet you.

- Bye.

- Bye!

Bye, Kyra!

[Tires screech]

Hey.

Hey, uh, you want a menu?

Uh, I was told

to order a villageburger.

One villageburger coming right up.

Uh, what do you want on it?

Everything.

And a local brew.

Grab a seat.

We'll bring it to you.

Thank you.

Villageburger, on!

And drag it through the garden.

[Sighs]

See you made a new friend

this afternoon.

Yeah, yeah.

Two, actually.

I hear that Mattie Devore can be

quite a dear in the right position.

Yeah.

You hear a lot,

old-timer?

More than you know, son.

Old don't mean dead.

Thank you.

[Sighs] You'd do well

to keep your distance

from Mattie Devore,

Mr. Noonan.

- Mm.

Uh-huh.

How do you know my name?

We don't see a celebrity

here every day.

Yes, well, I'm hardly

what you'd call a celebrity.

Well, we take what we can get.

I'm really sorry to hear about

what happened to your wife.

Hmm.

She was a doll.

So when she'd come in here

and eat, uh...

Would she be alone?

Uh, I guess so.

Or sometimes

with Bill Dean and his wife,

sometimes with Brenda Meserve,

and maybe another friend or two.

"Another friend or two,"

huh? Yeah.

Maybe. Yeah.

Why are you so interested in who

your wife was eating with,

Mr. Noonan?

Mike. Mike.

Just... just call me Mike.

I don't know, I guess

I'd just like to know

what life was like

for a year on Dark Score.

You know, all those years that

I couldn't make it up here.

So...

Hmm.

Anyway.

Mattie Devore...

She's a...

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