That's what he meant.' "I laughed and made fun of him, but I might as well have saved my breath.

He was sure Pat Kelly's ghost had come hikin' back from the hereafter to tell him to go to 17 Blank Street and find his boy.

'Else why was he ON Blank Street ?' he says.

'You tell me that.' "I couldn't tell him.

It's enough for me to figger out what makes live folks act the way they do, let alone dead ones.