“No, man. Gotta keep movin’. He’ll find me.”
“Who’s ‘he’?”
“Her brother, man. I gotta get outta here.”
“Whose brother?”
“Susie’s. He wants to kill me.”
“Who’s Susie, and why does her brother want to kill you?”
“He warned me, man. He told me to stay away. But Susie wouldn’t leave me. She said we could run off together. I wanted to, but I was too scared. You gotta hide me.”
“Look, whoever he is, he can’t get to you here.”
Connors’s face was sweating; his eyes were glassy, staring up at nothing while his head rolled side to side, lips moving silently. Hawker bent closer, but couldn’t hear anything. He began to back away, but then Connors started to scream.
“She’s dead, man. She’s dead.” There were tears in his eyes, and a choking sob in his voice.
Hawker began to worry that the man’
