Chapter 10
“She was an educated woman,” Lucinda said. “She won a scholarship to a state university, and after she graduated, she got a job as a schoolteacher somewhere over near Charlotte. I think she was there for about ten years, then she moved back here to take care of her mother and taught at the elementary school in Maggie Valley. After she’d been home for a while, she married a man she’d known in high school, and didn’t discover until it was too late that he’d turned into a bum. I’m pretty sure she’s taught Robbie how to read and some other things.”
“How in the world did a woman like that wind up with a man who was capable of beating her to death?” I said.
“You’re a cop, George,” Bob said. “Surely you’ve been around enough to know how often that sort of thing happens.”
“Yeah, that was a dumb question, wasn’t it? Consider it withdrawn.”