PROLOGUE<br >DECEMBER<br > THE BODY WAS DISCOVERED IN<br >one of the lakes on campus by Blanche Crowley, a retired mem-<br >ber of the Saint Mary s faculty, who was seventy-three and<br >hoped to live at least a decade more. To this end she ate sensi-<br >bly, smoked only when no witnesses were present, and every<br >morning jogged along the path encircling the campus lakes,<br >going around twice before heading for breakfast with Emily<br >House, who prefelTed indoor exercise at the Loftus Center.<br > The winter scene that morning might have recalled the his-<br >toric date when Fr. Edward Sorin and his companions arrived to<br >take possession of this land, calling it Notre Dame du Lac, but<br >the temperature had risen over the past twenty-four hours,<br >causing a thaw. Now, in the morning chill, the path was glazed<br >and this dictated deliberate and sure-footed progress. Blanche<br >ran with the ritualistic dedication of the regular jogger, bringing<br >each al~hritic knee up ahnost to chin level and lowering her<br >gaudy white jogging shoes with practiced care.<br > The first time Blanche passed the point where the path ran<br >below Holy Cross House she noticed something in the shallow<br >water offshore but thought it was discarded clothing. An odd<br >thought, but then she was exercising and her blain was<br >bounced about as she ran making mental clarity elusive. Com-<br >ing around the second time, grateful for the inten uption,<br >Blanche stopped running and looked more closely.<br > It was indeed clothing in the water, female clothing.<br >Blanche edged closel, then stopped. With sudden horror she<br >realized that there was someone in the clothing, half submerged<br >
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