The Lord's Prayer

Late one night, Wilhelmina called and asked her to come down to the man's apartment. She was there alone with him, and she did not want to be alone with him. Calhoun asked Marie to sit in a chair beside the bed; then he took her hand and held it for the rest of the night. He talked dawn throughout the night, not always understandable. All she knew of him was that Nicodemus place, and a love-sick woman asleep at the foot of his bed. When she finally placed his hand on his chest, the dead man expelled a burst of air that sounded to Marie like a sigh. It occurred to her that she,