The Expendable Man
“Now, such a long time later, he was traveling it from Phoenix back to Westwood. He had been light-hearted then; he wondered if he would ever again know that same careless happiness. He wondered if he would ever be cleansed of his innocent guilt.
By mid-afternoon he would be in Blythe; before sundown, in Indio. He would not stop in either place. After being treated as an invalid for almost a week, he was in pretty good shape. Even if his face did still bear considerable resemblance to that of a broken-down prizefighter’s. By evening he would be making the rounds at Med Center. Just as if nothing had happened. Just as if he’d never been away.
His name had been in the papers. Not in the headlines, not as a suspected criminal, not as a Negro. Embedded in the story of the arrest of Fred Othy and Dr. Oren Jopher was a paragraph: “Marshal H. C. Hackaberry stated that the discovery of Dr. Jopher’s part in the case was made through the co-operation of Dr.
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