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I wanted to call out, Do you remember? But how could she?

I ducked my head Her camera whirred

It was at that exact moment that Roy Holdstrom arrived

He stood in the co me, he did not wave but jerked his head furiously Then he turned and stalked out I ju could trap me

I saw Roy vanishing into the Men’s outside, and found hihi’s Fountains of Rome I stood beside him, noncreative, the old pipes frozen for the winter

“Look I found this on Stage 13 just now”

Roy shoved a typewritten page onto the tile shelf before me

The Beast Born at Last!

The Brown Derby Tonight!

Vine Street Ten o’clock

Be there! or you lose everything!

“You don’t believe this!” I gasped

“As raveyard” Roy stared at the wall in front of hio to the Brown Derby tonight? Hell, why not? Bodies on walls, rass, papier-, five o, if Manny and the others were upset by the scarecrow dummy, what if it suddenly disappeared, then what?”

“You didn’t?” I said

“No?” said Roy