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“Doing what?” Zil answered

“Hunter Hoe doing it?”

Hunter had recovered a little from the hit to the head He had tried to free his hands, but Hank had sood Cheers had risen from some of the crowd Others had looked queasy

“Yank,” Turk said, andmotion

“Where? Is what Ibadly, alible Drunk

“There” Lance pointed to the tumbled-down church

“Where the door used to be? It h that hole One end around Hunter’s neck, right? The other end can be really long You can extend it all the way down through the square, so you could have, like, a hundred kids pulling on it”

He frowned and glanced back and forth “Pull him up, then you can tie the rope off to one of the trees, around the base”

Zil considered Lance curiously It see involved, actually co up with a plan for an execution Weird Lance had none of Hank’s seething, crazy rage None of Turk’s desperate toadying He wasn’t a pathetic burn-out like Antoine

“That’s a good plan, Lance,” Zil said

Hank’s eyes glittered dangerously

“If we’re going to do this, we better get on with it,” Turk said “Astrid’s a freak-lover And that Brianna She could be bringing Sam?

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“Sam’s busy Besides, I’m not afraid of Sa far oing Hank Lance Start stringing the rope”

Zil climbed up onto the trunk of the convertible “Everybody! Everybody!”