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"I saw his face, Saul I’"

"Crap…I was afraid you’d say soot up and walked over to theand stared out into the new ht and clear, with puffy clouds coasting across the vast blue Without turning he said, "Even if you sahat you say you saw and all your guesswork is right…what does that have to do hat’s been happening in town?" He turned around and sat on the edge of the air conditioner "It doesn’t fit with the stuff I’ve been seeing--not at all Not even with the killings at the Guthrie farm None of this says ‘olf’ toFull moon was last Friday…the two cops were killed on the first We’re not following the lunar cycle"

"I know, but like I said, I don’t think we’re dealing with a olf right now Froether, we seem to be in vampire territory"

"Did that statement sound as stupid to you as it did to er attacked Val andbefore he died So Val didn’t hear, but I did, and it’s been like a needle stuck in my brain ever since" Crow closed his eyes for a second, took a breath, and then looked hard at Weinstock as he spoke, "He said, ‘Ubel Griswold sends his regards’"

"Ruger said that? He actually said Griswold’s na…he ay too strong I er than anyone I’ve ever met, and I’ve been in theis like, and I knoiry strong is like, and this was so in a way nothing rational can describe"

"Man, I think we left rational behind by a couple of er’s eyes eird, too They seeh, but I swear they turned yellow and then red"

"I’ain Ever"

Crow told Weinstock about how he iven him He told him how they had cooked up a plan to scale down the pitch at Dark Hollow and head through the woods to try and find Griswold’s house He spoke about the strangeness of the swampy area around Dark Hollow, and how they had been forced to cut their way through foul-s vines and sticker bushes before they found the house "I really wanted to find an old, abandoned pile of sticks, but that’s not e found The place was in good shape, like it had been maintained All the doors and ere covered up with plywood that was still green, and the front and back doors were chained shut with the locks on the inside of the house Only someone inside could lock or unlock those chains"

"Ohthose locks, the whole porch roof just suddenly collapses down" He snapped his fingers "Just like that Dae?"

"A ‘little strange’?" Weinstock echoed hoarsely His color was horrible

"Well, buckle up ’cause it gets stranger" Crow told him about the swarm of roaches that attacked the there on the porch, before the roof fell and the roaches attacked us, I thought I heard a voice in my head Very faint, but definitely there--and before you startvoices, here’s what it said, ‘She is going to die and there is nothing you can do to save her’"

Weinstock stared at hiht? You had that in your head while--"

"While Val alking into the trap with Boyd I was being teased with it, as if he knew I’d never get back to Val’s far that this was Griswold’s voice?"

"I don’t know I mean…I think the bastard’s dead Thirty years dead, probably buried by the Bone Man in an unrave, and there haven’t been any attacks around that you could point to as being like Griswold’s"

"Unless he isn’t dead and maybe moved away for a while," Weinstock ventured "He could have moved over to Jersey or up to the Poconos, started another farm, kept himself in check all these years, and ht about that, and it’s certainly a possibility--but I feel like he’s dead, that he’s been dead since 1976 Just a gut thing, but it’s what I believe"

"So whose voice was it?"

Crow shook his head "That’s just it I suppose itkind of vaut still tells me it was Griswold"

"Which makes sense only if, sohost? Are we finally adding theuess that very last part of it, at least fro I saw his body, and apart from all the rounds Val pumped into him he had a whole bunch of other bullet wounds Nine, to be exact, and all of them pretty well healed over Reun into him, hit him every damn time"

"Jeez…don’t tell me that I haven’t even had a chance to view the body yet"

"Now," Crow said, "now let’s hear your side of this"

Weinstock gave hi, flat stare "You won’t like it"

CrowBut I have to know"

Weinstock told hi Crow didn’t like it