Summary

In Chapter 12, Medicine Ed thought about how he and the horse Pelter had fallen in with some strange people. He’d gotten so irritated with Maggie that he’d finally shown her how to work with the horses just as a way to defend himself from all of her questions. When Maggie asked Medicine Ed how he knew what to do with the horses he told her it all came down to beliefs, just like religion. Medicine Ed missed having his Winnebago on the racetrack grounds to slip off into when Maggie asked too many questions. He’d wound up working for the young fool because he had gotten him a spot in the trailer park behind the Horseman’s Motel to park the RV and had even hooked it up to his own electricity.

Suitcase had left the young fool...