It was a twilight autumn evening in the ugly own of Hadley, Texas (population 24,554), named after the oil tycoon head.She was picked up into the air, thrown against the wall, and dragged up to the ceiling upside-down and feet-first - with blood smeared along her path, as she was slashed further and blood splattered around the room.He overwhelms his son with advice about putting off thoughts of marriage (or not getting his girlfriend pregnant and being forced to marry her) because there are other better prospects in his life - an education at Yale University and a merging with the oil business.e., "I played this stinking city like a harp from hell"), he ruined the Penguin""s political chances to become mayor.