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“You better not stay here They ht come back”

“Hold on,” I said “I know you, yes? Roy’s friend … Tom …”

“Shipway Better get out They were crazy Come on”

I followed Tom Shipway out of the empty apartment

He unlocked his own door with two sets of keys “Ready? Set! Go!”

I jumped in

He slaainst it “The landlady! I can’t let her see!”

“See?!” I looked around

We were in Captain Neine rooms

“Good God!” I cried

Tom Shipway beamed “Nice, huh?”

“Nice, hell, it’s incredible!”

“I knew you’d like it Roy gaveyou wrote on Jules Verne Great, huh?”

He waved and I walked and saw and touched The great red-velvet-covered Victorian chairs, brass-studded and locked to the ship’s floor The brass periscope shining down out of the ceiling The huge fluted pipe organ, center stage And just beyond, athat had been converted into an oval submarine porthole, beyond which swam tropical fish of various sizes and colors

“Look!” said Tom Shipway “Go on!”