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Date Posted: 08:43:46 08/03/09 Mon
Author: Elaine ()
Subject: Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears, Ch. 13, After Camelot



In this chapter we learn that Pamela, lonely and despairing, has hired on as an assistant to photographer Lucas North, who photographs weddings and other happy events when he isn't on assignment in war-torn parts of the world.

Pamela is in her element, having received the gracious compliment from North that she does indeed have an eye for photography.

Encountering yet another hanger-on, Charlie, while shooting a wedding, Pamela learns some disturbing facts about FBI agent Mark Ryan's relationship with Love Hagerty.

Pamela surreptitiously happens upon a clandestine encounter between Mark Ryan and Love Hagerty one night, and starts putting two and two together. Pamela plans to discuss this with FBI agent Gus.


Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears, Ch. 14, In the Blink of an Eye



The chapter opens with Olie trying to awaken the soundly sleeping Casey. Their ship is on its way to a maritime disaster, an explosion, in the hope of rescuing the crew, or what remains of it.

Casey crawls along the slippery ice floes as he makes his way towards the victims. The sights and smells of the disaster are horrifying.

Suddenly, Olie is upon him, gun in hand. Casey learns that Olie is one of Love's henchmen, having been hired to kill Casey as reparations for a drug deal gone wrong. When it seemed that all hope was lost, Hallbjorn appears on the scene. Olie is harpooned by the big man. At Olie's request, Casey removes a large amount of cash from Olie's coat, and removes the harpoon, knowing Olie will die.

After returning to their ship, Hallbjorn and Casey share some cod liver oil and a bit of the Icelandic home brew, Black Death. The ship docks at a herring village and Casey disembarks. One of the crew rescued from the explosion, a fellow named John, offers Casey a bed, and Casey, exhausted, takes it readily.

The next morning, John leaves again to go back to sea, and Casey, alone in John's crowded little house, places most of Olie's blood money on the table and starts out for home, determined to let no one stand in his way.

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