On page 175 of the hard cover Mr. Mercedes, a sentence reads--regarding Hodges: "He leaves his house with no premonition that he won't be back." At first, this sentence leads the reader to believe that Hodges will not return to his house. However, Hodges continues to return to his house throughout the book. And if he's going to return to his house, why even mention that he had no premonition? This sentence is one of the funniest lines I've read in one of Mr. King's books.
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It shows he was confident that he would be back. Perhaps a change of pace in Steve's foreshadowing that usually results in someone dying. Just a guess on my part.
That makes sense. He might have added "that night." Thanks for the responses. By the way, my post almost didn't appear because I put it in before I did my newbie post.He comes back, but not that night.
He spends the night at Janey's.
Perhaps a bit of a red herring, as well. Pretty standard in crime fiction
