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Bag of Bones :: Кинг Стивен
Страница: 399 из 425“What you going to do?” Draper asks in a kind of desperate whine, and Harry replies “What I have to.” That’s what he replied, and now I was going to do what I had toin spite of the stench, in spite of Sara, in spite of my dead wife’s shrieks. I hauled the roll of canvas out of the ground. The ropes which had tied it shut at either end held, but the roll itself split down the middle with a hideous burping sound.
“Hurry/” Jo cried. “I can’t hold it much longer!” It snarled; it bayed like a dog. There was a loud wooden crunch, like a door being slammed hard enough to splinter, and Jo wailed. I grabbed for the carry-bag with Slips ’n Greens printed on the front and tore it open as Harry the others call him Irish because of his carrot-colored hair—grabs the struggling kid in a clumsy kind ofbearhug and jumps into the lake with him. The kid struggles harder than ever,’ his straw hat comes off and floats on the water. “Get that!” Harry pants. Fred Dean kneels and fishes out the dripping hat. Fred’s eyes are dazed, he’s got the look of a fighter about one round from hitting the canvas. Behind them Sara Tidwell has begun to rattle deep in her chest and throat like the sight of the boy’s clenching hand, these sounds will haunt Draper Finney until his final dive into Eades Quarry. Jared sinks his fingers deeper, pumping and choking at the same time, the sweat pouring off him. No amount of washing will take the smell of that sweat out of these clothes, and when he begins to think of it as “murder-sweat,” he burns the clothes to get shed of it. Harry Auster wants to be shed of it all to be shed of it and never see these men again, most of all Jared Devore, who he now thinks must be Lord Satan himself. Harry cannot go home and face his father unless this nightmare is over, buried. And his mother! How can he ever face his beloved mother, Bridget Auster with her round sweet Irish face and graying hair and comrting shelf of bosom, Bridget who has always had a kind word or a soothing handler him, Bridget Auster who has been Saved, shed in the Blood of the Lamb, Bridget Auster who is even now serving pies at the picnic they’re having at the new church, Bridget Amter who is mamma,’ how can he ever look at her again—or she him—if he has to stand in court on a charge of raping and beating a woman, even a black woman?
So he yanks the clinging boy away—Kito scratches him once, just a nick on the side of the neck, and that night Harry will tell his mamma it was a bush-pricker that caught him unawares and he will let her put a kiss on it—and then he plunges the child into the lake. Kito looks up at him, his face shimmering, and Harry sees a little fish flick by. A perch, he thinks.
“Hurry/” Jo cried. “I can’t hold it much longer!” It snarled; it bayed like a dog. There was a loud wooden crunch, like a door being slammed hard enough to splinter, and Jo wailed. I grabbed for the carry-bag with Slips ’n Greens printed on the front and tore it open as Harry the others call him Irish because of his carrot-colored hair—grabs the struggling kid in a clumsy kind ofbearhug and jumps into the lake with him. The kid struggles harder than ever,’ his straw hat comes off and floats on the water. “Get that!” Harry pants. Fred Dean kneels and fishes out the dripping hat. Fred’s eyes are dazed, he’s got the look of a fighter about one round from hitting the canvas. Behind them Sara Tidwell has begun to rattle deep in her chest and throat like the sight of the boy’s clenching hand, these sounds will haunt Draper Finney until his final dive into Eades Quarry. Jared sinks his fingers deeper, pumping and choking at the same time, the sweat pouring off him. No amount of washing will take the smell of that sweat out of these clothes, and when he begins to think of it as “murder-sweat,” he burns the clothes to get shed of it. Harry Auster wants to be shed of it all to be shed of it and never see these men again, most of all Jared Devore, who he now thinks must be Lord Satan himself. Harry cannot go home and face his father unless this nightmare is over, buried. And his mother! How can he ever face his beloved mother, Bridget Auster with her round sweet Irish face and graying hair and comrting shelf of bosom, Bridget who has always had a kind word or a soothing handler him, Bridget Auster who has been Saved, shed in the Blood of the Lamb, Bridget Auster who is even now serving pies at the picnic they’re having at the new church, Bridget Amter who is mamma,’ how can he ever look at her again—or she him—if he has to stand in court on a charge of raping and beating a woman, even a black woman?
So he yanks the clinging boy away—Kito scratches him once, just a nick on the side of the neck, and that night Harry will tell his mamma it was a bush-pricker that caught him unawares and he will let her put a kiss on it—and then he plunges the child into the lake. Kito looks up at him, his face shimmering, and Harry sees a little fish flick by. A perch, he thinks.