The Rest of It Summary

Professor Roddy Thane is alone in his office in the English Department at Hollins University when he is joined by the custodian, Mike Donato. They had gotten into the habit of meeting at night like this because Thane was reluctant to go home and Donato liked to tell stories of his past. Tonight Donato tells a story of how he was running drugs with the captain of a boat when the captain got a call from the Coast Guard to check out an island where a rich woman lived alone with two servants. The captain made a habit of helping the Coast Guard, so he agreed even though they had a great deal of cocaine on board the ship. When they arrived, they found what appeared to be a massacre, but no bodies. They later learned the...