The
Painter
of
the
Someone
called
in
a
that
she
had
seen
a
man
painting
in
the
dark
over
by
the
pond.
A
police
ar
was
to
go
investigate.
The
two
officers
with
their
big
flashlights
walked
all
around
the
pond,
but
found
suspicious.
Hatcher
was
the
younger
of
the
two,
and
he
said
to
Johnson,
"What
do
you
think
he
was
painting?"
Johnson
looked
bemused
and
said,
"The
dark,
What
else
could
he
have
been
painting?"
Hatcher,
a
little
hurt,
said,
"Frogs
in
the
Dark,
Lily
pads
in
the
Dark,
in
the
Dark.
Just
as
many
things
exist
in
the
dark
as
they
do
in
the
light."
Johnson
paused,
exasperated.
Then
Hatcher
added,
"I'd
like
to
see
them.
I
might
even
buy
one.
Maybe
there's
more
out
there
than
we
We
are
the
police,
after
all.
We
need
to
know."