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She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling Through the cheap drapes she could see an all-night flashing neon sign: HOT HARVEY’S TOPLESS GIRLS

Great part of town she’d chosen

She closed her eyes again, turned on her side, and wondered where Jaton? She wondered what Noelle had said to him and Dillon Why hadn’t Noelle told her the truth about that night? Maybe she would have if there’d been more time Maybe Had Noelle told her the truth, that both her father and her husband had conspired to put her in Beaderht it?

She wondered if her grandparents had called Doctor Beadermeyer, and if the Nazi was on his way to Philadelphia No, he’d wait He wouldn’t want to chase shadows, and that’s exactly what she was and planned to be No one could catch her now The three hundred dollars would get her to Maine She’d go to Bar Harbor, get a job, and survive The tourists would flow in in only three months, then she would have more cover than she’d ever need No one would find her there She knew she was seeing Bar Harbor through a seven-year-old’s eyes, but it had been so ical; surely it couldn’t be all that different now

Where was James? He was close, she just knew it She hadn’t exactly felt hirandparents, he was sht to be

She devoutly hoped he was at hoton, in bed fast asleep, the way she should be right now but wasn’t How close was he?

"Daht about it a few et to Bar Harbor sooner than expected Still, she’d spent 2752 on this roo, but she couldn’t sleep

She was out of the roo back onto the road, the garish lights fro around her helht, as she passed a Chevrolet--she would have sworn that James was nearby But that wasn’t possible

Jaator and on the lookout for the Last Stop Motel When she pulled out not fifty feet ahead of them, at first he couldn’t believe it He shouted, "Good God Wait, Dillon, wait Stop"

"Why, what’s wrong?"

"My God, it’s Sally"

"What Sally? Where?"

"On the nize ht a o, Dillon Jesus, what if we’d been thirty seconds later?"