] CHAPTER XI The second call energized her into action. "What is she saying to me?" Ah Cum shrugged. She married my Dad in a small ceremony down at City Hall. If you know her for the vicious, scheming wretch that she is, why in God’s name—?’ ‘She’s not a vicious, scheming wretch,’ Gerald said calmly. There was a Greyhound bus that she was overdue to ride.