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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    11:19 pm
    @@@@@During those ten seconds, the golden track
    @@@@@During those ten seconds,
    the golden track on the water darkened just a
    littleElizabeth Eastlake knew her Emily
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    Dickinson; I wondered if she also knew her Vachel
    Lindsay
    "What about Tom?" Pam asked at lastThere was
    caution in her voice, deep cautionI was pretty
    sure that her hair appointment had left her mind
    "I have reason to believe he may be contemplating
    suicide I crooked the phone against my shoulder
    and began stroking Reba's hair"Know anything
    about that?"
    "What do She sounded punched,
    breathless"Why in God's name would I She
    began to gain a little strength, grasping for
    indignationIt's handy in such situations, I
    suppose"You call out of a clear blue sky and
    expect me to tell you about Tom Riley's state of
    mind? I thought you were getting better, but I
    guess that was wishful th-"
    "Fucking him should give you some insight My
    hand wound into Reba's fake orange hair and
    clutched, as if to tear it out by the roots"Or
    am I wrong?"
    "That is insane!" she nearly screamed"You need
    help, Edgar! Either call DrKamen or get help
    down there, and soon!"
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    The anger - and the accompanying certainty that I
    would begin to lose my words - suddenly
    disappearedI relaxed my hold on Reba's hairThis isn't about youHave you seen signs of depression? You
    must haveBut no hang-up click, eitherAnd I
    could hear her breathing
    At last she said, "OkayI know where
    you got this ideaLittle Miss Drama Queen,
    correct? I suppose Ilse also told you about Max
    Stanton, out in Palm Deser
    11:19 pm
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    aside with a thump so she faced the westering sun
    "Stare at it too long, you'll go blind," I said
    "Of course, that's where the fun isBruce
    Springsteen, 1973 or so, muchacha
    "I should be upstairs, painting that," I told her,
    "Doing fucking classic chanel bag art for fucking art's sakeReba's wide eyes suggested to the world
    in general that she was stuck with America's
    nastiest man
    I picked up the cordless and shook it in her face
    "I can do this," I said
    Nothing from Reba, but I thought she looked
    doubtfulBeneath us, the shells knock off louis vuitton continued their
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    wind-driven argument: You did, I didn't, oh yes
    you did
    I wanted to go on discussing the matter with my
    Anger-Management DollInstead I punched in the
    number of what used to be my houseNo problem at
    all remembering thatI was hoping to get Pam's
    answering chloe paddington machineInstead I got the lady herself,
    sounding breathless"Hey, Joanie, thank God you
    called backI'm running late and was hoping our
    three-fifteen could be-"
    "It's not Joanie," I saidI reached for Reba and
    drew her back onto my lap without even thinking
    about itAnd you might have chanel purses to
    cancel your three-fifteenWe've got something to
    talk about, and it's important
    "What's wrong?"
    "With me? Nothing
    "Edgar, can we talk later? I need to get my hair
    done and I'm running late
    "It's about Tom Riley
    Silence from Pam's part of the worldIt went on
    for maybe ten replica omega seconds
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    11:19 pm
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    “I thought Kyle was going to stop
    Neither of us could speak above a whisper
    “The Seeker bought it His teeth were still clenched in anxietyYour acting hasn't improved muchMy body was so rigid, it all moved together“They can'tnot believe meWhat I
    am… Gucci Indy Bag well, it's something impossibleSomething that shouldn't exist
    “Something unbelievable,” he agreed
    His praise thawed some of the ice in my stomach, in my veins
    “Seekers aren't all that different from the rest of them,” I murmured to myself“Nothing to black quilted bag be
    especially afraid of
    He shook his head back and forth slowly“There really isn't anything you can't do, is there?”
    I wasn't sure how to respond to that
    “Having you with us is going to change everything,” he continued under his breath, talking to
    himself chanel classic bag now
    I could feel how his words made Melanie sad, but she was not angry this timeYou can protect them better than I could
    The slow-moving taillights did not frighten me when they appeared on the road aheadThey
    were familiar, a reliefI sped up–just a omega planet ocean little, still a few miles below the limit–to pass them
    Jared pulled a flashlight out of the glove compartmentI understood what he was doing:
    reassurance
    He held the light to his own eyes as we passed the cab of the truckI looked past him, through
    the other dior saddle wi
    11:19 pm
    @@@@@When we saw you racing down the road,
    @@@@@When we saw you racing down the road, we
    thought we might have humans on our handsI was sweating, but not from the heat!”
    I shudderedYou'll be perfectly fineIf you'd like, we can follow you to PhoenixYou don't need to trouble yourself
    “It was nice to meet youI'll be pleased when my shift is over, so that I can go home and tell my
    partner I met another green-first FlowerShe'll be so excited
    “Um… tell her, 'Brightest sun, longest day' for me,” I said, giving him the Earthly translation of
    the common greeting and farewell on the Flower PlanetHave a pleasant journey
    “And you have a pleasant night
    He stepped back, and the spotlight hit my eyes again
    “Cut it, Hank,” the Seeker said, shading his eyes as he turned to walk toward the carThe night
    turned black again, and I forced another smile toward the invisible Seeker named Hank
    I started the engine with shaking hands
    The Seekers were fasterThe little black car with the incongruous light bar atop it purred to
    lifeIt executed a sharp U-turn, and then the taillights were all I could seeThey disappeared
    quickly into the night
    I pulled back onto the roadMy heart pumped the blood through my veins in hard little burstsI
    could feel the fierce pulse throbbing through to my fingertips
    “They're gone,” I whispered through my suddenly chattering teeth
    I heard Jared swallow
    “That was… close,” he
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    11:22 pm
    @@@@@Hearn smokes a cigarette or two, quite
    @@@@@Hearn smokes a cigarette or two, quite bored, and then cuts in on a little blonde girl dancing with a tall blond clubman
    The gesture toward conversation:
    And your name is Betty Carreton, eh, where do you go to school?
    Oh, to Miss Lucy'sAnd then the barbarity he cannot forswearAnd does Miss Lucy tell you girls how to keep it until marriage?
    What did you say?
    More and more often this inexplicable humorSomewhere in the cavernous and undoubtedly rotten tissues of the collective brain of Al, of Jansen, of the magazine men, the college literary critics, in the aesthetes' salons, in the modern living rooms on the quiet back streets of Cambridge, there would be the unadmitted hunger to be bored and superior at a Brattle Hall dance, either that or go to Spain
    He thinks it out one nightHe can be genuinely indifferent to the Brattle Hall thing because it is the Class AA minor league affair which all his training on the green lawns, at the dancing school, or riding at night in convertibles on the highways back of Cholive-oil, has satisfiedIt is for the others, the salon men, to be tortured and attracted by the extra quotient of wealth, the elaboration of social fences
    And about Spain he knows he is never seriousThat war is in its last spring, and there is nothing in himself he wants to satisfy by going there, no over-all understanding or compassion which he cares to satisfyThe graduation and class week is upon him, and he is cool and friendly to his parents, bored with them too
    What are you gonna do, Bob, don't you want any help? Bill Hearn asks
    No, I'm going to head for New York, Ellison's father promised me a job there
    This is quite a place, Bob, Bill Hearn says
    Yes, a funny four yearsAnd inside himself he is strainingGo away, leave me aloneOnly he has learned not to say that out loud any longer
    For his thesis he has been given a magna: A Study of the Cosmic Urge in Herman Melville

    He functions easily through the next two years, sees himself consciously, amusedly as The Young Man in New YorkHe is first a reader and then a junior editor at Ellison and Co Harvard, New York Extension, as he terms it, and a room and kitchenette in the East SixtiesOh, I'm just a literary con man, he will say
    I can't tell you how I've slaved over the thing, the lady historical novelist says to himI was so worried about the motivations of Julia, such an elusive bitch, but I think I achieved the effect I hungered for in her, the one who worries me, however, is Randall Clandebor
    11:22 pm
    @@@@@It's the man who comes to the party because
    @@@@@It's the man who comes to the party because economic inequities humiliate him every day of his life who makes a good CommunistYou're independent of economic considerations, and so you're without fear, without the proper understanding
    I guess I will get out, AlWe're friends then, thoughThey shake rather self-consciously and leave each otherI've searched myself and I understand it's a remnant of bourgeois aspirationsWhat a meatball, Hearn thinksHe is amused, a little contemptuousAs he passes a store front, he stares at himself for a moment, regarding his dark hair and hooked blunted noseI look more like a Jew-boy than a midwestern scionNow if I'd had blond hair, Al really would have searched himself
    But there are other elementsPerhaps, or was it something else, something less definable?

    His senior year he branches out, plays house football with a surprising and furious satisfactionOne play he never quite forgetsA ball carrier on the opposing team breaks through a hole in the line, is checked momentarily, and is standing there stock upright, helpless, when Hearn tackles himHe has charged with all his strength and the player is taken off the field with a wrenched knee while Hearn patters after him
    You all right, Ronnie?
    Yeah, fine
    Good tackle, HearnOnly he knows he isn'tThere has been an instant of complete startling gratification when he knew the ball carrier was helpless, waiting to be hitThere is not even any cynical pleasure in making the All-House football team
    And other fields tooHe attains a grudged notoriety by seducing a DeWolfe Street debHe even ties up with some of the men he has met through his freshman roommate, now in Speakers, receives after four years a belated invitation to one of the Brattle Hall dances
    The stags line up against the wall, chat cursorily with one another, and cut in to dance with either a girl they know or the girl of a man they
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    11:22 pm
    @@@@@With the black market effectively out of
    @@@@@With the black
    market effectively out of business for the time being, this was the
    highest-stakes card game Scarlett had ever been in
    She loved tormenting the Yankees, tooThere were still patrols on
    Charleston's streets but their noses had been tweaked and would be
    tweaked again and again until they admitted defeatWith her as one
    of
    the tweakers"Deal," she said, "I feel lucky Only a few more days
    and she would be at a ball, dancing with RhettHe was keeping away
    from her now, managing things so that they were never alone
    together,
    but on the dance floor they would be together-and touching-and alone,
    no matter how many other couples were on the floorScarlett held
    the
    white camellias Rhett had sent her to the cluster of curls at the nape
    of her neck and twisted her head to see herself in the looking glass
    "It looks like a gloh of fat on a bunch of sausages," she said with
    disgust"Pansy, you'll have to do my hair different She could pin the flowers in between the waves, that wouldn't
    be
    too badOh, why did Rhett have to be so mean, telling her that
    his precious old plantation flowers were the only jewels she could
    wear?
    It was bad enough that her ball gown was so dowdyBut with nothing
    to
    dress up the plainness except a bunch of flowers-she might as well
    wear
    a flour sack with a hole cut for her headShe'd counted on her pearls
    and her diamond earbobs"You don't have to brush a hole in my
    scalp,"
    she grumbled at Pansy Pansy continued to brush the long
    dark mass of hair with vigorous strokes, eradicating the curls that had
    taken so long to arrangeScarlett looked at her reflection with
    growing satisfactionYes, that was much betterHer neck was really
    too pretty to coverIt was much better to wear her hair up
    And her earbobs would show up betterShe was going to wear them,
    no
    matter what Rhett had told herShe had to be dazzling, she had to
    win
    the admiration of every man at the ball, and the hearts of at least a
    fewThat would make Rhett sit up and take noticeShe fastened the
    diamonds into her earl
    11:22 pm
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    "And a few more things, besides," she said complacently"We
    developed
    a number of interesting tactics back thenThis crop of soldiers
    wasn't around; it will all be new to themI'll bet a lot of these men
    never even heard of poison sumacI dislike being so uncharitable at
    Christmas, but they've got to learn that we quit being afraid of them a
    long time ago"I do wish Ross could be here," she hermes replica added abruptly, all
    laughter gone"When do you suppose it will be safe for your brother
    to come back home, Rhett?"
    "It depends on how quickly you and your friends get the Yankees
    whipped
    into shape, MamaCertainly in time for the Saint Cecilia
    "That's all right, thenIt doesn't matter if he misses all the rest
    as long as he's home for the Ball Scarlett could hear the capital B
    in Miss Eleanor's gucci men watch voiceScarlett was certain that the hours would
    drag by until the twenty-sixth and the beginning of the SeasonBut to
    her surprise the time passed so quickly that she could hardly keep
    up
    The most entertaining part of it all was the battle with the Yankees
    The colonel did, indeed, order retaliation for the curfew
    humiliation
    And on Monday the Market rang with laughter as Charleston's ladies
    packed chanel white j12 watch their baskets with the weapons of their choiceThe following
    day the soldiers were careful to keep their gloves onPlunging a hand
    into some loathsome-feeling substance or suddenly being afflicted with
    fiery itching and swelling were not experiences they were willing to
    repeat"The fools should have known we'd expect them to do just
    what
    they did," Scarlett said to Sally Brewton at a whist tiffany 925 party that
    afternoonSally agreed, with a happy reminiscent laugh"I had a
    loose-lidded box of lamp black in my shopping," she said"What was
    yours?"
    "Cayenne pepperI was scared to death I'd start sneezing and give
    the
    whole trick away speaking of tricks, I believe that's mine New
    rationing regulations had been posted the day before, and the ladies of
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    11:14 pm
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    “And you think this KGB fellow will cooperate, keep us informed about Conklin if they make
    contact?”
    “I can tryAfter all, we have a common objective, and I know Alex would accept him because
    he knows how much the Soviets want Carlos on the dead list
    Holland leaned forward in his chair“I told Conklin I’d help him any way I could as long as it
    didn’t compromise our going after MedusaHe’ll be landing in Paris within the hourShall I
    leave instructions at the diplomatic counter for him to Tiffany Bracelets reach you?”
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    printout on the desk“I don’t know how much I can give him in an hour, but I’ll go to workI’ve
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    “Some things never change, CorporalWhere’s that crippled delinquent who was
    with me?”
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    “Come again? A noun’s a verb leading to the incomprehensible?”
    “It’s not so hard, Doctor,” laughed the marine, leading Panov to a motorized cart complete with
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    11:14 pm
    @@@@@ “Of course it is, because I’m
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    “Of course it is, because I’m insubordinate—but this isn’t the navyYou can’t keelhaul me, or
    hang me from the yardarm, or withhold my ration of rumAll you can do is fire me, and if you do,
    a lot of people will wonder why, which wouldn’t do the Agency any goodBut that’s not
    necessary
    “What the hell are you talking about, Charlie?”
    “Well, to begin with, I’m not talking about that law firm in New York because you’re right, it is
    our keystone, and Alex with his infinite imagination would probe and threaten to the point where
    the shredding begins and our paper trail here and abroad ends
    “I had something like that in mind—”
    “Then again you were right,” interrupted Casset, nodding“So we keep Alex away from our
    keystone, as far away from us as possible, but we give him our markerSomething tangible he can
    plug into, knowing its value“I don’t understand a word you’re saying
    “You would if you knew Conklin betterHe knows now that there’s a connection between
    Medusa and the JackalWhat did you call it? A self-fulfilling prophecy?”
    “I said the strategy was so perfect it was inevitable and therefore self-fulfillingDeSole was the
    unexpected catalyst who moved everything ahead of schedule—him and whatever the hell
    happened down in MontserratWhat’s this marker of yours, this tangible item of value?”
    “The string, PeterKnowing what he knows, you can’t let Alex bounce around Europe like a
    loose cannon any more than you could give him the name of that law firm in New YorkWe need a
    pipeline to him so we have some idea what he’s up to—more than an idea, if we can manage it
    Someone like his friend Bernardine, only someone who can also be our friend
    “Where do we find such a person?”
    “I have a candidate—and I hope we’re not being taped
    “Count on it,” said Holland with a trace of anger“I don’t believe in that crap and this office is
    swept every morningWho’s the candidate?”
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    “A man at the Soviet embassy in Paris,” replied Casset calmly
    “A mole?”
    “Not for a minuteA KGB officer whose first priority never changes? The Americanized village or town where the Jackal was initially trained in
    Russia?”
    “Half trained and escaped from before he could be shot as a maniacOnly, it’s not just an
    American compound—that’s a mistake we make so often
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    11:14 pm
    @@@@@One was a skin diver's facemaskThe other
    @@@@@One was a
    skin diver's facemaskThe other was the harpoon
    pistol I had seen mounted on the wall of the
    library with the other weaponsThe question, it
    seemed to me, was whether or not some rational
    Elizabeth had come out of the mental fog long
    enough to send me up here
    Before I could consider this further, the front
    door opened below me"I'm back!" Wireman called
    "Mission accomplished! Now who wants a drink?"
    How to Draw a Picture (V)
    Don't be afraid to experiment; find your muse and
    let her lead youAs her talent grew stronger,
    Elizabeth's muse became Noveen, the marvelous
    talking dollAnd by the time
    she discovered her mistake - by the time Noveen's
    voice changed - it was too lateBut at first it
    must have been wonderfulFinding one's muse
    always is
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    The cake, for instance
    Make it go on the floor, Noveen saysMake it go
    on the floor, Libbit!
    And because she can, she doesShe draws Nan
    Melda's cake on the floorSplattered on the floor!
    Ha! And Nan Melda standing over it, hands on hips,
    disgusted
    And was Elizabeth ashamed when it actually
    happened? Ashamed and a little frightened? I think
    she wasFor children, meanness is usually
    funny only when it's imagined
    Still, there were other games
    Until finally, in '27
    In Florida, all out-of-season hurricanes are
    called AliceBut the one
    that came screaming in off the Gulf in March of
    that year should have been named Hurricane
    Elizabeth
    The doll whispered to her in a voice that must
    have sounded like the wind in the palms at night
    Or the retreating tide grating through the shells
    under Big PinkWhispering as little Libbit
    lingered on the porch of sleepTelling her how
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    much fun it would be to paint a big storm
    11:14 pm
    @@@@@ No reply, which was exactly what I
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    I crossed the plant-lined main hall to the doorway
    of the China Parlor, looked in at Elizabeth, and
    saw she was sleeping in the same head-cocked
    positionHer snores, which had earlier struck me
    as pathetic in their naked antiquity, were now
    actually comforting; otherwise, it would have been
    too easy to imagine her sitting there dead with
    her neck brokenI wondered if I should wake her,
    and decided to let her sleepThen I glanced right,
    toward the wide main staircase, and thought of her
    saying Oh, you'll find it on the second floor
    landing
    Find what?
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    Probably it had been just another bit of gibberish,
    but I had nothing better to do, so I walked down
    the hall that would have been a dogtrot in a
    humbler house - the rain tapping the glass ceiling
    - and then climbed the wide staircaseI stopped
    five risers from the top, staring, then slowly
    climbed the rest of the wayThere was something,
    after all: an enormous black-and-white photograph
    in a frame of narrow banded goldI asked Wireman
    later how a black-and-white from the nineteentwenties
    could have been blown up to such a size -
    it had to have been at least five feet tall by
    four wide - with so little blurringHe said it
    had probably been taken with a Hasselblad, the
    finest non-digital camera ever made
    There were eight people in the photograph,
    standing on white sand with the Gulf of Mexico in
    the backgroundThe man was tall and handsome and
    appeared to be in his mid-fortiesHe was wearing
    a black bathing singlet that consisted of a strapstyle
    shirt and trunks that looked like the closefitting
    underwear basketball players wear nowadays
    Ranged on either side of him stood five girls, the
    oldest a ripe teenager, the youngest identical
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    towheads that made me think of the Bobbsey Twins
    from my earliest adventures in readingThe twins
    were wearing identical bathing dresses with
    frilled skirts, and holding handsIn their free
    hands they clasped dangly-legged, apron-wearing
    Raggedy Ann dolls that made me think of Reba
    and the dark yarn hair above the vacantly smiling
    faces of the twins' dolls was surely REDIn the
    crook of one arm, the man - John Eastlake, I had
    no doubt - held girl number six, the toddler who
    would eventually become the snoring crone below me
    Behind the white folks stood a young black woman
    of perhaps twenty-two, with her hair tied in a
    kerchiefShe was holding a picnic basket, and
    judging from the way the not-inconsiderable
    muscles in her arms were bunched, it was heavy
    Three bangled silver bracelets clung to one
    forearm
    Elizabeth was smiling and holding out her chubby
    little hands to whoever had taken this family
    portraitNo one else was smiling, although there
    might have been the ghost of one lurking around
    the corners of the man's mouth; he had a mustache,
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    and that made it hard to tellThe young black
    nanny looked positively grim
    In the hand not occupied with supporting the
    toddler, John Eastlake held two items
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    11:18 pm
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    “I heard the angry claw beast roaring, and I ran toward the soundSoon I could see its thick
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    beastIt roared and spun, but that didn't helpPicture a dog chasing its tailClaw beasts have
    very small brains–a limited intelligence
    “I made it to the beast's back and ran up the double spine, digging in with my knives so that it
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    “It only took seconds to get up to the beast's headBut that was where the greatest difficulty
    waitedMy ice cutters were only… about as long as your forearm, maybeThe claw beast's hide
    was twice as thickI swung my arm down as hard as I could, slashing through the first layer of
    fur and membraneThe claw beast screamed and reared back on its hindmost legs
    “I lodged four of my hands into its hide–it screamed and thrashedWith the other two, I took
    turns cutting at the gash I'd madeThe skin was so thick and tough, I didn't know if I would be
    able to saw through
    “The claw beast went berserkIt shook so hard that it was all I could do to hold on for a
    momentBut time was running out for Harness LightI shoved my hands into the hole and tried
    to rip it open
    “Then the claw beast threw itself backward onto the ic
    11:18 pm
    @@@@@ “My next action made no sense, because I
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    “My next action made no sense, because I had no body for Harness LightWe were midway
    between cities, much too far to run to eitherIt was probably cruel, too, to take him out with no
    painkillersBut I couldn't stand to let him die inside the broken half of his Bear host
    “I used the back of my hand–the ice-cutting sideIt was too wide a blade… It caused a lot of
    damageI could only hope that Harness Light was far gone enough that he wouldn't feel the
    extra pain
    “Using my soft inside fingers, I coaxed Harness Light from the Bear's brainI barely paused to ascertain thisI shoved him into the egg pocket in the
    center of my body, between the two hottest heartsThis would keep him from dying of cold, but
    he would only last a few short minutes without a bodyAnd where would I find a host body in
    this empty waste?
    “I thought of trying to share my host, but I doubted I could stay conscious through the
    procedure to insert him into my own headAnd then, having no healing medicine, I would die
    quicklyWith all those hearts, Bears bled very fast
    “The claw beast roared, and I felt the ground shake as its huge paws thudded downI didn't
    know where our guide was, or if he livedI didn't know how long it would take the claw beast
    to find us half-buried in the snowI was right beside the severed BearThe bright blood would
    draw the monster's eyes
    “And then I got this crazy idea
    I paused to laugh quietly to myself
    “I didn't have a Bear host for Harness LightI couldn't use my bodyThe guide was dead or had
    fledBut there wasone other body on the ice fie
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    11:23 pm
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    Whom could he send out on the first patrol? He thought at once of recon, and then deliberated, searching his memory for what he knew of themThey had been in the rubber boats but there were only a few of those men left, and since then they had been relatively inactiveThe night the Japanese had attacked across the river they had acquitted themselves well, very wellThere was that platoon leader Croft whom Dalleson had mentionedBest of all, they were a small platoon, and he could send them all outIf he were to split a larger platoon, the men who would have to go would be bitter at their bad luck in being selected
    With a little shock he realized that Hearn was to be assigned to recon tomorrowIt wasn't a particularly good idea to send out an officer who would be unfamiliar with his platoon, but he couldn't leave the success of a patrol like this to a noncomAnd Hearn was intelligent with the physical requirements necessary for such an extended mission -- at this instant Cummings considered Hearn coldly, as though he were totting up the merits and demerits of a horseHearn could manage it; he probably had a flair for command
    A reaction was setting inThis new plan had a great many risks, almost too many to depend on itFor a few moments Cummings considered dropping itBut the initial investment was cheap enoughA dozen or fifteen men and if it went badly for them nothing was lostIn the meantime, the Navy was not irretrievably lostHe could make a trip perhaps to GHQ once the attack was launched, and see if he couldn't promote those destroyers
    He walked back to his bed and lay downIn his pajamas the tent was suddenly cold, and he shivered, feeling a muffled anticipation and elat
    11:23 pm
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    11:23 pm
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    Rosemary's voice shocked her more than the insultWhy, she sounds
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    Rosemary's turned into a monsterShe turned hurriedly to the
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    She couldn't tellShe put her ear against the windowpane and
    strained
    to hearThe only sound was a muffled whimpering from PansyIf I
    don't do something I'll go mad, she thought, and she began to pace
    back
    and forth across the small room"Why does a big plantation like this
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    "Do you really want to know? Then sit downThere's a rocker over by
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    "I can't bear to sit still! I'm going down there and find out what's
    going on Scarlett groped in the darkness for the doorknob"If you
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    11:23 pm
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    what she'd doRosemary looked very pale, but she seemed composed
    enoughShe was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the pattern
    of the coverlet as if she'd never seen one beforeScarlett walked to
    the window that overlooked the back lawnIf she stayed to one side
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    curtain with cautious fingers and peered outWas Rhett out there?
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    "Better get away from that window, Scarlett," said Rosemary"If
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    is he has to do Scarlett whirled to the attack
    "Don't you care what's happening?"
    "I care plenty, but I don't know what's happening
    "I know that Rhett's about to be swamped by a bunch of raging
    darkies
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    around with?"
    "Then we'd really be in a fixI know some of the black men, they
    work
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    too
    "Rhett's not scared of anything!"
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    11:14 pm
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    “What is it?” asked Bourne
    “Who came in, Aleksei?”
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    “What is it, Sergei?” asked Krupkin
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    “What is it?” repeated Jason
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    “What people?” said the Algerian, sudden concern in his voice
    “The two you picked up at the airport several hours agoThe cripple and his friend
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    317
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    across the table at Alex Conklin, who sat beside the unidentified Bourne and had just explained that
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    “How and where do you want to be paid?” asked Jason
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