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〃John!〃 I screamed。 〃Oh John ; please help me! Please help Janice!〃
Rain ran into my eyes。 I blinked it away; and he was gone。 I could see the shadows I had mistaken for John 。。。 but it hadn't been only shadows。 I'm sure of that。 He was there。 Maybe only as a ghost; but he was there; the rain on his face mixing with the endless flow of his tears。
She died in my arms; there in the rain beside that fertilizer truck with the smell of burning diesel fuel in my nose。 There was no moment of awareness … the eyes clearing; the lips moving in some whispered final declaration of love。 There was a kind of shivery clench in the flesh beneath my hands; and then she was gone。 I thought of Melinda Moores for the first time in years; then; Melinda sitting up in the bed where all the doctors at Indianola General Hospital had believed she would die; Melinda Moores looking fresh and rested and peering at John Coffey with bright; wondering eyes。 Melinda saying I dreamed you were wandering in the dark; and so was I。 We found each other。
I put my wife's poor; mangled head down on the wet pavement of the interstate highway; got to my feet (it was easy; I had a little cut on the side of my left hand; but that was all); and screamed his name into the shadows of the underpass。
〃John! JOHN COFFEY! WHERE ARE YOU; BIG BOY?〃
I walked toward those shadows; kicking aside a teddy…bear with blood on its fur; a pair of steel rimmed eyeglasses with one shattered lens; a severe