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"She’s not going to be happy"

"Too bad It’s business," she said with more bravado than she felt

After Gray left, she picked up her hybrid ca open the back, she picked up a pair of tweezers, and extracted her life-saving lens

The human eyeball had started to dry and was nicked where she had secured it inside the calass jar filled with formaldehyde and dropped the eye in It sank to the botto so its lifeless brown iris stared at her Thank God Antonio still worked at the funeral horaphy, the solution had been si back to her routine, Evelyn felt good about the day’s work She even handled Vee’s resignation with professional aploht her that there wasmodels She planned to cut back her hours, travel more, and visit herup theequipment into boxes when Gray appeared in her studio

She straightened as a sick feeling swirled in her story, but as long as you don’t cause trouble, she’ll leave you alone"

Not convinced, she waited

"I called in that favor," he said

"Then why are you here?"

"I brought a few friends with ood "What do they want?"

"They want you to take their picture"

How Galligaskins Sloughed the Scourge

Anna Ta of ass and ox, in a land rich in short days and -a-Folloerenvy, lived a askins for his old-fashioned knee-high socks that (in the heat of argu up

In this out-of-the-way town called by the low, just plain Ranug, where the bakers sold ht--in this tuaskins) wore long, leg-hugging fine-skein hose white and delicate as the foot of the petal of a rose These stockings showed best in winter when the lacily laddered knit exposed a wealth of leg-skin glow--puce, blue, cri to the state of the wearer’s chilblains

Galligaskins’ hose were loose and thick, and brown as feast-day pancakes for the poor And they ended folded over just below the knee, where he tried to tie thearter of a cord--a shocking sight but one that persevered and was accepted as so that must be; as a rainy day, which cleans the streets