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Chapter Author's Note To an extent, this novel deals with the legal aspects of child custody in the State of Maine. I asked for help in understanding this subject from my friend Warren Silver, who is a fine attorney. Warren guided me carefully, and along the way he also told me about a quaint old device called the Stenomask, which I immediately appropriated for my own fell purposes. If I've made procedural mistakes in the story which follows, blame me, not my legal resource. Warren also asked me--rather plaintively ¡ª if I could maybe put a 'good' lawyer in my book | Bag of Bones Stephen King Bag of Bones Author Stephen King Category Thriller Website http Date 11-October-2012 Page 1 402 http Bag of Bones Stephen King Chapter Author s Note To an extent this novel deals with the legal aspects of child custody in the State of Maine. I asked for help in understanding this subject from my friend Warren Silver who is a fine attorney. Warren guided me carefully and along the way he also told me about a quaint old device called the Stenomask which I immediately appropriated for my own fell purposes. If I ve made procedural mistakes in the story which follows blame me not my legal resource. Warren also asked me--rather plaintively j- if I could maybe put a good lawyer in my book. All I can say is that I did my best in that regard. Thanks to my son Owen for technical support in Woodstock New York and to my friend and fellow Rock Bottom Remainder Ridley Pearson for technical support in Ketchum Idaho. Thanks to Pam Dorman for her sympathetic and perceptive reading of the first draft. Thanks to Chuck Verrill for a monumental editing job--your personal best Chuck. Thanks to Susan Moldow Nan Graham Jack Roman s and Carolyn Reidy at Scribner for care and feeding. And thanks to Tabby who was there for me again when things got hard. I love you hon. . Yes Bartleby stay there behind your screen thought I I shall persecute you no more you are harmless and noiseless as any of these old chairs in short I never feel so private as when I know you are here. Bartleby HERMAN MELVILLE Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . As I stood there hushed and still I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before. Rebecca DAPHNE DU MAURIER Mars is heaven. RAY BRADBURY Page 2 402 http Bag of Bones Stephen King Chapter Chapter One On a very hot day in August of 1994 my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine .