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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@ I know who I am,I told her I blinked, then
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    I know who I am,I told her
    I blinked, then looked back at the friendly faces beside me
    “Thank you,” I said again to the Healer“I suppose I'd better be on my wayYou could sleep here if you'd like
    Cerulean walked me to the reception areaShe put her hand on my shoulder as I stepped
    through the door
    My heart beat fasterHad she noticed that my pack, once flat, was now bulging?
    “Be more careful, dear,” she said, and patted my armNo more hikes in the dark
    She smiled and went back to her desk
    I kept my pace even as I walked through the parking lotWhat if the Healer
    looked in her cabinets? How soon would she realize why they were half empty?
    The car was still there, in the pocket of darkness created by a gap between streetlightsMy breath came fast and unevenOf course it should look emptyThat was the
    whole pointBut my lungs didn't calm until I could glimpse the vague shape under the blanket
    on the backseat
    I opened the door and put the backpack on the passenger seat–it settled there with a reassuring
    clatter–then I climbed in and shut the doorThere was no reason to slam the locks down; I
    ignored the urge
    “Are you okay?” Jared whispered as soon as the door was closedHis voice was a strained,
    anxious rasp
    “Shh,” I said, keeping my lips as still as I could
    I drove past the bright entrance and answered Cerulean's wave with one of my own
    “Making friends?”
    We were on the dark roadNo one was watching me anymor
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:46 pm
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    The discipline had to be tightened all through the divisionIf men were dicking off on patrols, then there were malingerers in the hospitalHe'd have to send a memo down to Portable Surgical to crack down on all the doubtful casesThere was entirely too much coddling going on in the outfit, and there were too many men resisting his authority, thwarting himOh, they'd be happier with a new general in command, a gucci backpack butcher who would waste their lives to no purposeWell, if they didn't perk up, they'd be having their butcher soonThere were always enough military hacks around
    In a fury he came back to his tent, sat down at his desk, and found himself doodling with a pencilHe threw it down and stared with a febrile loathing at the map board by his cotBy now, it was a taunt to him
    But something was wrong with the tentSomething chanel knockoff was changed since Clellan had fixed it this morningHe turned around, gazed about the room with a feeling of inordinate anxiety
    "God!" It came out as something between a grunt and a choked exclamationA deep pang of pain and fear lanced through his chestOn the middle of his floor was the match and the cigarette butt, mashed into the duckboards in a tangled ugly excrement of black ash, soiled paper, and brown chanel earrings logo tobacco
    There was a note for him, too, on the desk, which he had not noticed:

    Sir,
    Waited for you but you didn't show upI brought back the supplies you indicated

    Then it was Hearn who had soiled his floorCummings walked over to the match and cigarette butt, picked them up with intense distaste and dropped them in a wastebasketThere was a little black ash left, which he scattered with his footDespite himself gucci ladies watches he felt obliged to keep sniffing his fingers although he loathed the odor of a dead cigarette
    Deep in his bowels something had reacted and a twinge of diarrhea made him perspireHe reached over, picked up his field telephone, cranked it once, and murmured into the receiver, "Find Hearn and send him over to my tent Then he rubbed vigorously at the flesh on the left side of his face, which seemed to have grown black and white bags num
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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    By the time they were twelve years old, Scarlett and her sisters had
    the imperatives of the catechism firmly implanted by their mother's
    patient teachingú Now Scarlett squirmed with guilt because she had
    neglected all religious observance for so many yearsHer mother
    must
    be weeping ú in heavenOh, why did her mother's sisters have to live
    in Charleston? Nobody in Atlanta had ever expected her to go to
    MassButler wouldn't have fussed at her, or at worst, she might gucci mens wallet have
    expected her to go to the Episcopal church with herThat wouldn't be
    so badScarlett had some vague notion that God didn't pay attention
    to anything that happened in a Protestant churchBut He would know
    the minute she stepped over the threshold of Saint Mary's that she
    was
    a fearful sinner who hadn't been to Confession since since-she
    couldn't even remember the last timeShe wouldn't be able to take
    Communion, and everyone would know that was whyShe louis vuitton pink imagined
    the
    invisible guardian angels Ellen had told her about when she was a
    childAll of them were frowning; Scarlett pulled the covers up over
    her headShe didn't know that her concept of religion was as
    superstitious and ill-formed as any Stone Age man'sShe only knew
    that she was frightened and unhappy and angry that she was trapped
    in a
    dilemmaWhat was she going to do? She remembered her mother's
    serene
    candlelit face telling her family and her servants that God loved the
    stray louis vuitton tote lamb most of all, but it wasn't much comfortShe couldn't think
    of any way to get out of going to MassIt wasn't fair! Just when
    things had started to go so well, tooButler had told her that
    Sally Brewton gave very exciting whist parties and she was sure to be
    invitedScarlett did, of course, go to MassTo her surprise the
    ancient ritual and the responses were strangely comforting, like old
    friends in the new life she was beginningIt was easy to remember
    her
    mother when black chanel bag her lips were murmuring the Our Father, and the smooth
    beads of the rosary were so familiar to her fingersEllen must be
    pleased to see her there on her knees, she was sure, and it made her
    feel goodBecause it was inescapable, she made a Confession and
    went
    to see Carreen, tooThe convent and her sister turned out to be two
    more surprisesScarlett had always imagined convents as fortresslike
    places with locked gates where nuns scrubbed stone floors from
    morning
    till quilted chanel bag ni
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:54 pm
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    “You asked for a thread,” mused the DCI“I’m not sure I can actually provide one, but I can
    give you something like it
    “New York?” Conklin sat forward on the couch“The answering machine? That DeFazio hood in
    Brooklyn Heights?”
    “We’ll get to New York, to all of that—themRight now let’s concentrate on that thread of
    yours, that spine you mentioned
    “I’m not the slowest kid on the block, but where is it?”
    Holland leaned back in his chair, gazing first at the papers on his desk and then up at Alex
    “Seventy-two hours ago, when you decided to come clean with me about everything, you said that
    the idea behind rolex watches women Bourne’s strategy was to persuade the Jackal and this latter-day Medusa to join
    forces, with Bourne as the common target, one feeding the otherWasn’t that basically the premise?
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    294
    Both sides wanted him killedCarlos had two reasons—revenge and the fact that he believes
    Bourne could identify him; the Medusans because Bourne had pieced together so much about
    them?”
    “That was the premise, yes,” agreed Conklin, nodding“It’s why I dug around and made those
    phone calls, never expecting to find what I didJesus, a global cartel born twenty years ago in
    Saigon, peopled prada logo by some of the biggest fish in and out of the government and the militaryIt was
    the kind of pay dirt I didn’t want and wasn’t looking forI thought I might dig up maybe ten or
    twelve hotshot millionaires with post-Saigon bank accounts that couldn’t bear scrutiny, but not this,
    not this Medusa
    “To put it as simply as possible,” continued Holland, frowning, his eyes again straying down to
    the papers in front of him, then up at Alex“Once the connection was made between Medusa and
    Carlos, word would be passed to the Jackal that there was a man Medusa wanted eliminated, and
    cost was no objectSo far, chanel white watch yes?”
    “The key here was the caliber and the status of those reaching Carlos,” explained Conklin
    “They had to be as close to bona fide Olympians as we could find, the kind of clients the Jackal
    doesn’t get and never got
    “Then the name of the target is revealed—say, in a way such as ‘John Smith, once known years
    ago as Jason Bourne’—and the Jackal is hookedBourne, the one man he wants dead above all
    othersThat’s why the Medusans reaching Carlos had to be so solid, so above questioning that
    Carlos accepts them and dismisses any sort of a trap
    “Because,” added the CIA’s director, “Jason Bourne came out of Saigon’s bags dolce gabbana Medusa—a fact
    known to Carlos—but he never shared in the riches of the later, postwar MedusaThat’s the
    background scenario, isn’t it?”
    “The logic’s as clean as it can beFor three years he was used and damn near killed in a black
    operation, and along the way he supposedly discovered that more than a few undistinguished
    Saigon pricks were driving Jaguars and were sailing yachts and pulling down six-figure retainers
    while he went on a government pensionThat could try the patience of John the Baptist, to say
    nothing of Barabbas
    “It’s a terrific libretto,” allowed Holland, a slow smile breaking across his louis vuitton men face
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@ Joe and Rita Mean Dog moved in; the
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    Joe and Rita Mean Dog moved in; the relentless
    barking of their menagerie commencedThe
    Baumgartens also moved in, and I often began to
    pass their boys playing Frisbee on the beachThey
    were just as Wireman had said: sturdy, handsome,
    and polite, one maybe eleven and the other maybe
    thirteen, with builds that would soon make them
    gigglebait among the junior high cheerleader set,
    if not alreadyThey were always willing to share
    their Frisbee with me for a throw or two as I
    limped past, and the older - Jeff - usually called
    something encouraging like "Yo, MrFreemantle,
    nice chuck!"
    345
    A couple with a sports car moved into the house
    just south of Big Pink, and the distressing
    strains of Toby Keith began to waft to me around
    the cocktail hourOn the whole, I might have
    preferred SlipknotThe quartet of young people
    from Toledo had a golf cart they raced up and down
    the beach when they weren't playing volleyball or
    off on fishing expeditions
    Wireman was more than busy; he was a dervish
    Luckily, he had helpOne day Jack lent him a hand
    unclogging the Mean Dog lawn-sprinklersA day or
    two later, I helped him push the Toledo visitors'
    golf cart out of a dune in which it had gotten
    stuck - those responsible had left it to go get a
    six-pack, and the tide was threatening to take it
    My hip and leg were still mending, but there was
    nothing wrong with my remaining arm
    Bad hip and leg or not, I took Great Beach Walks
    Some days - mostly when the fog came in during the
    late afternoon, first obliterating the Gulf with
    cold amnesia and then taking the houses, as well -
    I took pain pills from my diminishing stockWireman was rarely parked in his
    beach chair drinking green tea that February, but
    346
    Elizabeth Eastlake was always in her parlor, she
    almost always knew who I was, and she usually had
    a book of poetry near to handIt wasn't always
    Keillor's Good Poems, but that was the one she
    liked the bestMerwin and Sexton
    and Frost, oh-my
    I did plenty of reading myself that February and
    MarchI read more than I had in years - novels,
    short stories, three long nonfiction books about
    how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short
    answer appeared to have W for a middle initial and
    a dick for a Vice President)But mostly what I
    did was paintEvery afternoon and evening I
    painted until I could barely lift my strengthening
    armBeachscapes, seascapes, still lifes, and
    sunsets, sunsets, sunsets
    But that fuse continued to smolderThe heat had
    been turned down but not offThe matter of Candy
    Brown wasn't the next thing, only the next obvious
    thing
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    12:44 pm
    @@@@@It seems so completely obviousf courseI
    @@@@@It seems so completely
    obviousf courseI have to give you yourself backI already knew we
    souls were wrong to come hereSo I don't have any choice now but to do the right thing, and
    leaveYou all survived without me before; you'll do it againYou've learned so much about the
    souls from me–you'll help themCan't you see? This is the happy endingIt's the way they all
    need the story to finishI can give them… not a future
    But as much as I can
    She was crying, becoming incoherentHer sorrow brought tears to my eyesI'd no idea that she
    cared so much for meAlmost as much as I cared for herI hadn't realized that we loved each
    other
    Even if Jared had never asked me for this, even if Jared did not exist… Once this path had
    occurred to me, I would have had to proceed down itI loved her that much
    No wonder the success rate for resistant hosts was so low here on EarthOnce we learned to
    love our human host, what hope did we souls have? We could not exist at the expense of one
    we lovedA soul could not live that way
    I rolled myself over and, in the starlight, I looked at my body
    My hands were dirty and scratched, but under the surface blemishes, they were beautifulThe
    skin was a pretty sun-browned color; even bleached in the pale light, it was prettyThe nails
    were chewed short but still healthy and smooth, with little half moons of white at the basesI
    fluttered my fingers, watching the muscles pull the bones in graceful pattern
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@There were two cots at one end of the tent
    @@@@@There were two cots at one end of the tent and a half dozen men were sitting on them, and painting the fungus sores on their bare feet with a red antisepticAn enlisted man was examining the men
    "It's a slow goddam line," Wilson complained
    "All lines are slow," Red said"They got everything down to a systemWait in line, wait in line, I tell you they ain't anything worth doing because of the lines
    "Ah suspec' when we get back we'll be waitin' in line for a woman
    They talked idly as the line moved forwardWhen Red reached the medic, he was tongue-tied for an instantHe remembered the old migrants, their limbs warped by rheumatism and arthritis and syphilisTheir eyes had become vacant, and they were usually drunkOnce they had snuffled up to him, and begged for a pill
    Now it was reversed, and for a second he could not speakThe medic was looking with boredom at him
    "It's my back," Red muttered in embarrassment at last
    "Well, take off your shirt, I can't see through your clothing," the medic snapped
    This broke the spell for Red"If I took it off you wouldn't know any more," he flared"You guys can figure out more waysGo over there to the doctor Red noticed a shorter line, and walked over to it without answeringHe was tense with angerI don't have to take that crap, he told himself
    Wilson joined him in a moment"They don' know nothi
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:54 pm
    @@@@@"I'll take it as a kindness if you'll stop
    @@@@@"I'll take it as a kindness if you'll stop talking about me
    as if I was deaf and dumbYou can preach at me till you're blue in
    the face if you want to, but first tell me who all those carriages
    belonged to!" The aunts stared at her from wide eyes"Why, the
    Yankees, of course," said Eulalie"Carpetbaggers," added Pauline with
    precisionWith corrections and amendments to every sentence
    spoken by
    the other, the sisters told Scarlett that the coachmen were still loyal
    to their pre-War owners, although they now worked for the newrich,
    uptown peopleDuring the Season they manipulated their employers
    in
    various clever ways so that they could drive "their white folks" to
    balls and receptions if the distance was too far or the weather too
    inclement for them to walk"On the night of the Saint Cecilia, they
    just flat out insist on having the evening off and the carriage for
    their own use," Eulalie added"They're all trained coachmen and very
    high-toned," Pauline said, "so the carpetbaggers are terrified of
    offending them She was very close to laughter"They know the
    coachmen despise themHouse servants have always been the most
    snobbish creatures on earth
    "Certainly these house servants," said Eulalie gleefully"After all,
    they're Charlestonians just as much as we areThat's why they care
    so
    much about the SeasonThe Yankees took whatever they could and
    tried
    to destroy everything else, but we still have our Season
    "And our pride!" Pauline announcedWith their pride and a penny,
    they could ride the streetcar anyplace it went, Scarlett thought
    sourlyBut she was grateful that they'd gotten sidetracked onto the
    stories about faithful old family servants that occupied them for the
    rest of the mealShe was even careful to eat only half her breakfast
    so that Eulalie would be able to finish it as soon as she was gone
    Aunt Pauline ran a mighty stingy householdShe was pleasantly
    surprised to find Anne Hampton at the Butler house when she got
    there
    It would be nice to bask in Anne's admiration for a while after the
    hours of cold disapproval from her auntsBut Anne and the widow
    from
    the Home who was with her were almost totally occupied with the
    bowls
    full of camellias that had been sent down from the plantation"Burnt to the ground," he was saying, "but stronger than
    ever once they're cleared of weeds
    "Oh, look!" Anne exclai
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    12:54 pm
    @@@@@ “You touched on all three points, miss,”
    @@@@@
    “You touched on all three points, miss,” agreed Panov, taking his drink
    “You are American, of course
    “How could you tell? I’m not wearing cowboy boots or a Hawaiian shirt
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    307
    The woman laughed charmingly“I know the driver who brought you in hereHe’s American
    security, and quite nice, very attractive
    “Security? You mean like in ‘police’?”
    “Oh, very much so, but we never use the wordOh, here’s your companion coming back
    inside The hostess lowered her voice“May I ask quickly, Doctor? Does he require a
    wheelchair?”
    “Good heavens, noHe’s walked like that for yearsEnjoy your stay in Paris, sir The woman left as Alex, limping, weaved around
    several groups of chattering Europeans to the chair next to PanovHe sat down and leaned forward
    awkwardly in the soft leatherHe was obviously disturbed
    “What’s the matter?” asked Mo
    “I just talked to Charlie Casset in Washington
    “He’s the one you like, the one you trust, isn’t he?”
    “He’s the best there is when he has personal access, or, at least, human intelligenceWhen he
    can see and hear and look for himself, and not simply read words on paper or a computer screen
    without asking questions
    “Are you, perchance, moving into my territory again, Doctor Conklin?”
    “I accused David of that last week and I’ll tell you what he told meIt’s a free country, and your
    training notwithstanding, you don’t have a franchise on common sense
    “Mea culpa,” agreed Panov, nodding“I gather your friend did something you don’t approve
    of
    “He did something he wouldn’t approve of if he had more information on whom he did it with
    “That sounds positively Freudian, even medically impru
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@It was nice to feel like one of the guys
    @@@@@It was nice to feel like one of
    the guys again, even for an hour
    Elizabeth's weather had also clearedI read her a
    number of poems while she arranged her chinas
    Wireman was there, caught up for once and in good
    spiritsThe world felt fine that dayIt occurred
    to me only later that George "Candy" Brown might
    well have been abducting twelve-year-old Tina
    Garibaldi at the same time I was reading Richard
    Wilbur's poem about laundry, "Love Calls Us to the
    393
    Things of the World," to ElizabethI chose it
    because I happened to see an item in that day's
    paper saying it had become something of a
    Valentine's Day favoriteThe Garibaldi kidnapping
    happened to be recordedIt occurred at exactly
    3:16 PM, according to the time-stamp on the tape,
    and that would have been just about the time I
    paused to sip from my glass of Wireman's green tea
    and unfold the Wilbur poem, which I had printed
    off the Internet
    There were closed-circuit cameras installed to
    watch the loading-dock areas behind the Crossroads
    MallTo guard against pilferage, I supposeWhat
    they caught in this case was the pilferage of a
    child's lifeShe comes into view crossing right
    to left, a slim kid dressed in jeans with a pack
    on her backShe was probably planning to duck
    into the mall before going the rest of the way
    homeOn the tape, which the TV stations replayed
    obsessively, you see him emerge from a rampway and
    take her by the wristShe turns her face up to
    his and appears to ask him a questionBrown nods
    in reply and leads her awayAt first she's not
    struggling, but then - just before they disappear
    394
    behind a Dumpster - she attempts to pull freeBut
    he's still holding her firmly by the wrist when
    they disappear from the camera's viewHe killed
    her less than six hours later, according to the
    county medical examiner, but judging by the
    terrible evidence of her body, those hours must
    have seemed very long to that little girl, who
    never harmed anyoneThey must have seemed endless
    Outside the open window, The morning air is all
    awash with angels, Richard Wilbur writes in "Love
    Calls Us to the Things of the World
    Those were only sheets
    iv
    The Baumgartens departedThe Godfreys' dogs
    barked them good
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    12:44 pm
    @@@@@ “No!No! ” I shook my head frantically “Why
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    “No!No! ” I shook my head frantically
    “Why not, Wanda?” Jeb asked“Don't sound like a half-bad idea to me
    I swallowed and took a deep breath so my voice wouldn't turn hystericalListen to me
    carefully, JebI amtired of being a parasiteCan you understand that? Do you think I want to go
    into another body and have this start all over again? Do I have to feel guilty forever for taking
    someone's life away from them? Do I have to have someone else hate me? I'm barely a soul
    anymore–I love you brutish humans too muchIt's wrong for me to be here, and Ihate feeling
    that
    I took another breath and spoke through the tears that were falling now“And what if things
    change? What if you put me in some-one else, steal another life, and it goes wrong? What if that
    body pulls me after some other love, back to the souls? What if you can't trust me anymore?
    What if I betray you next time? I don't want to hurt you!”
    The first part was the pure and unadorned truth, but I was lying wildly through the secondI
    hoped they wouldn't hear thatIt would help that the words were barely coherent, my tears
    turned to sobsI would never hurt themWhat had happened to me here was permanent, a part
    of the very atoms that made up my small bodyBut maybe, if I gave them a reason to fear me,
    they would more easily accept what had to be
    And my lies worked, for onceI caught the worried glance Jared and Jeb exchangedThey
    hadn't thought of that–of my becoming untrustworthy, becoming a dangerIan was already
    moving to put his arms around meHe dried my tears against his chestYou don't have to be anyone elseNothing's going to change
    “Hold on, Wanda,” Jeb said, his shrewd eyes suddenly sharper“How does going to one of
    those other planets help you? You'll still be a parasite, kid
    Ian flinched around me at the harsh
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    12:51 pm
    @@@@@Her expression of disgust when she spat them
    @@@@@Her expression of disgust when she spat them out made
    Scarlett laughScarlett's laughter made Cat frownWhich made
    Scarlett laugh all the more"Better get used to being laughed at,
    Miss Cat O'Hara," she said, "because you're a wonderfully silly little
    girl and you make your Momma very, very happy, and when people
    are
    happy they laugh a lot Scarlett took Cat back to the house when she
    started yawning"Pick the hay out of her hair while she naps," she
    told Peggy Quinn"I'll be back in time to give her supper and a
    bath She interrupted the slow, chewing contemplation of one of the
    plow horses in the stable to ride him, bareback and astride, over
    Ballyhara in the lingering, slowly dimming twilight
    The wheat fields were richly yellow, even in the blue-hued light
    There would be a bounteous harvestScarlett rode home, content
    Ballyhara would probably never deliver the kind of profit she'd earned
    from building and selling cheap houses, but there were satisfactions
    beyond earning moneyThe land of the O'Haras was fruitful again;
    she
    had brought it back, at least in part, and next year there'd be more
    acres tilled; the year after, still more
    "It's so good to be back," Scarlett said to Kathleen next morning
    "I have about a million messages from everybody in Savannah She
    settled herself happily beside the hearth and put Cat down to explore
    the floorBefore long the heads began to appear above the half door,
    everyone eager to hear about America and Bridie and all the restAt
    the Angelus the women hurried back down the boreen to the village,
    and
    the O'Hara men came in from the fields for their dinnerEveryone
    except Seamus, and, of course, Sean who'd always taken his bills in
    the
    small cottage with Old Katie Scarlett O 'HaraScarlett didn't notice
    at the timeShe was too busy greeting Thomas and Patrick and
    Timothy
    and persuading Cat to give up the big spoon she was trying to eatIt
    was only after the men had gone back to their work that Kathleen told
    her how much things had changed while she was away"It's sorry I
    am
    to say it, Scarlett, but Seamus took it hard that you didn't stay for
    his wedding
    "I wish I could have, but I couldn'tHe must have known tha
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    12:47 pm
    @@@@@His foot came down hard as he struggled to
    @@@@@His foot
    came down hard as he struggled to keep steady; the thud of its fall was the only sound in the
    vast spaceIt echoed through the room
    It was fundamentally wrong for me to feel grateful to that hideous weapon in Jeb's hands… but
    I didI knew that without it we would probably have been attackedThese humans would not
    stop themselves from hurting Jeb if it meant they could get to meThough we might be attacked
    despite the gunJeb could only shoot one of them at a time
    The picture in my head had turned so grisly that I couldn't bear itI tried to focus on my
    immediate surroundings, which were bad enough
    Jeb paused for a moment, the gun held at his waist, pointing outwardHe stared all around the
    room, seeming to lock his gaze one by one with each person in itThere were fewer than twenty
    here; it did not take longWhen he was satisfied with his study, he headed for the left wall of
    the cavernBlood thudding in my ears, I followed in his shadow
    He did not walk directly across the cavern, instead keeping close to the curve of the wallI
    wondered at his path until I noticed a large square of darker ground that took up the center of
    the floor–a very large spaceNo one stood on this darker groundI was too frightened to do
    more than notice the anomaly; I didn't even guess at a reason
    There were small movements as we circled the silent roomThe bending woman straightened,
    twisting at the waist to watch us goThe gesturing man folded his arms across his chestAll
    eyes narrowed, and all faces tightened into expressions of rageHowever, no one moved toward
    us, and no one spokeWhatever Kyle and the others had told these people about their
    confrontation with Jeb, it seemed to have had the effect Jeb was hoping for
    As we passed through the grove of human statues, I recognized Sharon and Maggie eyeing us
    from the wide mouth of one opening
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    12:48 pm
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    "What?"
    "Snag! Little snag, little hold-up! You fucking
    deaf, Wearman?"
    Was the flashlight sleeve tilting? I feared it was
    Water could be running over my hand and I might
    now be too numb to feel itBut if the sleeve
    wasn't tilting and I tried to correct, I'd make
    matters worse
    If water's running out, her head will be above the
    surface again in a matter of secondsAnd then
    it'll be all overYou know that, right?
    1082
    I knewI sat in the dark with my arm up, afraid
    to do anythingTime had
    been cancelled and memory was a ghost
    "Here it is," Jack said at last"It's caught in
    someone's ribs
    "Thank God," I said I could see
    him in front of me, a dim shape with one knee
    between my awkwardly bent legs, planted in the
    litter of disarranged bones that had once been
    part of John Eastlake's eldest daughterI held
    the flashlight sleeve outGently
    does it, because I can't hold it straight much
    longer
    "Luckily," he said, "I have two hands And he put
    one of his over mine, steadying the water-filled
    flashlight as he began screwing the cap back on
    He paused only once, to ask me why I was crying
    When it was done, I took the capped flashlight
    from himIt wasn't as heavy as when it had been
    filled with D-cells, but I didn't care about that
    What I cared about was making sure that the lid
    was screwed down tightI told
    1083
    Jack to have Wireman check it again when he got
    back up
    "And try not to break any more rungsI'm going to
    need them all
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    Mansfield Park
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    chariot, with true dowager propriety, to Bath, there to parade over
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    thoroughly, perhaps, in the animation of a card-table, as she had
    ever done on the spot; and before the middle of the same month the
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    two bridesmaids were duly inferior; her father gave her dolce sale away; her
    mother stood with salts in her hand, expecting to be agitated; her
    aunt tried to cry; and the service was impressively read by Dr
    Nothing could be objected to when it came under the discussion of
    the neighbourhood, except that the carriage which conveyed the bride
    and bridegroom and Julia from the church-door to Sotherton was the
    same chaise which MrRushworth had used for a twelvemonth before
    In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest
    investigation
    It was done, and they were goneSir Thomas felt as an anxious
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    which his wife had been apprehensive of for herself, but had omega replica watches fortunately
    escapedNorris, most happy to assist in the duties of
    the day, by spending it at the Park to support her sister’s spirits, and
    drinking the health of MrRushworth in a supernumerary
    glass or two, was all joyous delight; for she had made the match;
    she had done everything; and no one would have supposed, from
    her confident triumph, that she had ever heard of conjugal infelicity
    in her life, or could have the smallest insight into the disposition
    of the niece who had been brought up under her eye
    The plan of the young couple was to proceed, after a few days, to
    Brighton, and take a house there for some weeksEvery public place
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    “Yes?” answered Alex
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    “Would you care to talk less in the vulgate, Professor? It was the ‘vulgate,’ wasn’t it?”
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    I was down, but he was down, tooIt gave me enough time to scramble forward, ripping my
    knees against the rough stone
    Kyle grunted, and his hand clutched at my naked heelThere was nothing to catch hold of; I
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    second in danger of falling again because my body was moving almost parallel to the floorI
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    hope and adrenaline surging in my veinsI burst into the river room at full speed, my only
    thought to reach the tunnelI could hear Kyle's heavy breath close behind but not close enough
    With each step, I pushed harder against the ground, throwing myself ahead of him
    Pain lanced through my leg, crumpling it
    Over the babble of the river, I heard two heavy stones hit the ground and roll–the one I'd been
    clutching and the one he'd thrown to cripple meMy leg twisted under me, spinning me
    backward to the ground, and in the same second he was on top of me
    His weight knocked my head against the rock in a ringing blow and pinned me flat against the
    floor
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    The air blew out of me in a siren of sound that surprised us allMy wordless shriek was more
    than I'd hoped for–surely someone would hear itPlease let that someone be JebPlease let him
    have the gun
    “Uhng!” Kyle protestedHis hand was big enough to cover most of my faceHis palm mashed
    against my mouth, cutting off my scream
    He rolled then, and the motion so took me by surprise that I had no time to try to find an
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