The idea was that within a decade, the sewers would stop dumping into the river every time it rained.
Pickett Engineering had gotten the initial contract, but they’d never finished the work, and it had gone way over budget,
so the government pulled the contract from Pickett’s company and allowed anyone to bid on finishing the project.
And then, even though they’d done a terrible job the first time, Pickett Engineering won the new contract—
apparently by bribing state officials. Two of Pickett’s executives had already been arrested
and were believed to be cooperating with the police. Pickett himself hadn’t yet been charged,
although an editorial in the paper from three days before his disappearance criticized the authorities:
“The Indianapolis Star Has Enough Evidence to Indict Russell Pickett; Why Don’t the Authorities?”
“Annnnddd it’s happening. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Just waiting for the zip to download, yes, and opening, and... oh, hell yes.”
Daisy finally looked up at me and smiled. Her front teeth were a little crooked, turning toward each other,
and she was self-conscious about it, so she rarely smiled all the way.
But now I could even see her gums. “Can I do the thing, like, at the end of Scooby-Doo and tell you how I did it?” I nodded.
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